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Frontex Announces Search for New Executive Director

Frontex Announces Search for New Executive Director

2014-06-13

The post was left vacant at the end of May when Ilkka Laitinen, the first Frontex executive director left the agency after 9 years of service.

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Frontex Focal Points — The sea’s the limit

Frontex Focal Points — The sea’s the limit

2014-05-20

Frontex-coordinated Focal Points were established to offer longer-term exchanges of border guards at key point at the external borders. Working in other member states together with peers from different backgrounds and facing different challenges provides a unique opportunity for officers to exchange experience and different approaches to the job; a vital element in the development of individual officers and of best practice in the field.

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Frontex Publishes Annual Risk Analysis 2014

Frontex Publishes Annual Risk Analysis 2014

2014-05-15

Detections of illegal border crossing at the EU external borders increased sharply in 2013, rising to over 107,000 from 75,000 in 2012, with Syrians, Eritreans and Afghans being the most commonly detected nationalities.

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Border Surveillance Demonstration and Workshop Finland 2014

Border Surveillance Demonstration and Workshop Finland 2014

2014-03-11

One of the key objectives of Frontex is to keep Member States informed about new technological developments in the field of border control. In this regard, Frontex seeks to put more emphasis on organizing, with the help of Member States, practical demonstrations of new technologies.

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The Feasibility of a European System of Border Guards Conference Report

The Feasibility of a European System of Border Guards Conference Report

2014-02-14

The final report of the Conference ‘The Feasibility of a European System of Border Guards: A Practitioner’s Perspective’ was compiled by rapporteurs Dr Peter Hobbing and Mr Emilio De Capitani. The report is based on a conference held in Warsaw in October last year and constitutes a practitioners’ input to the ongoing discussion on the future of the justice and home affairs (JHA) area. The report has been shared with the European Commission, European Parliament and Council.

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Frontex and eu-LISA sign Working Arrangement

Frontex and eu-LISA sign Working Arrangement

2014-01-31

Frontex and the European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems (eu-LISA) signed a Working Arrangement today at Frontex headquarters in Warsaw. Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen represented the Agency in a signing ceremony with Krum Garkov, the Executive Director of eu-LISA.

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