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Frontex testing the future of border checks at Lisbon airport

Frontex testing the future of border checks at Lisbon airport

2019-10-04

If you’re passing through the Lisbon airport this month, you could experience the future of border control as you leave the European Union. Instead of standing in queue to show your passport to border guard, travellers are able to cross the border almost seamlessly thanks to face recognition and touchless scanning of fingerprints.

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Commissioner Avramopoulos visits Frontex, meets with agency’s staff

Commissioner Avramopoulos visits Frontex, meets with agency’s staff

2019-10-01

Today, EU Commissioner for Migration Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos visited Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and met with its staff.

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Frontex honours the memory of its first Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen

Frontex honours the memory of its first Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen

2019-09-30

Yesterday, the former Head of the Finnish Border Guard and first Frontex Executive Director, Lieutenant General Ilkka Laitinen, passed away.

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Frontex teams up with INTERPOL to track down foreign terrorist fighters

Frontex teams up with INTERPOL to track down foreign terrorist fighters

2019-09-20

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, supported the implementation of the Neptune 2 sea border operation coordinated by INTERPOL that resulted in the detection of more than a dozen suspected foreign terrorist fighters travelling across the Mediterranean.

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Migratory situation in August – Slight increase on main migratory routes

Migratory situation in August – Slight increase on main migratory routes

2019-09-16

In August, the number of detections of illegal border crossings on Europe’s main migratory routes rose 9% from the previous month to around 12 900 due to higher arrivals on the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean. Overall, the total on all European migratory routes for the first eight months of 2019 was 26% lower than a year ago at around 68 700.

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Frontex and AFRIPOL hold risk analysis workshop in Algeria

Frontex and AFRIPOL hold risk analysis workshop in Algeria

2019-09-13

This week, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, held the Joint Workshop on Risk Analysis and Cross-Border Crime in Algiers, Algeria, in cooperation with the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL).

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