46 results for "rapid intervention"
I want to file a complaint. Is it admissible? [1] Definition of staff: A member of the European Border and Coast Guard Standing Corps deployed through border management teams, migration management support teams and return teams [2] Frontex operational activity: Joint operations, pilot project, rapid border intervention, migration management support team deployment, return operation, return intervention or an operational activity of the Agency in a third country. [3] Fundamental rights: ...
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2016-02-12
Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday in Brussels to discuss the coordination of their activities related to the refugee and migrant crisis.This meeting will take place after NATO decided on Thursday to launch an operation near Turkey.Frontex currently has 775 officers and support staff deployed on the Greek islands as part of Poseidon Rapid Intervention. The operation also includes ...
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2021-07-10
Due to the growing migratory pressure at Lithuania’s border with Belarus, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency will significantly increase its support to Lithuania next week. European standing corps teams already help the country with border control and surveillance. The operation, which started with the deployment of a dozen officers and patrol cars, will more than double in size next week. Frontex will also provide Lithuania with experts who will assist national authorities ...
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2021-07-30
Today, 60 additional standing corps officers have arrived in Lithuania to support the country with migration management due to increased pressure at its border with Belarus. Earlier this month, Lithuanian authorities asked Frontex for additional support and the launch of a rapid border intervention. In total, the agency is currently deploying 100 officers, 30 patrol cars and two helicopters in Lithuania. Experts from the Frontex European Centre for Return will also visit Vilnius next week to ...
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2011-03-03
Warsaw, March 02 — RABIT Operation 2010 came to an end on March 02, 2011, four months after its launch on November 02, 2010 in the Evros River region of north-eastern Greece. Frontex Deputy Executive Director Gil Arias Fernandez was present in the operational area for the close of the operation — the first ever deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs), Frontex’s rapid response capability. “Frontex will continue to support Greece in the management of irregular migration at its land ...
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2020-11-13
The Management Board of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) met today at the request of the Commission in an extraordinary session to discuss the Rapid Border Intervention ongoing in the Eastern Mediterranean, and in particular, the allegations of so-called pushbacks recently reported in the media. The Management Board takes note of the report of the Executive Director on the “Rapid Border Intervention in the Eastern Mediterranean” and of the fact that the Executive Director ...
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2020-11-12
The Management Board of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) met today at the request of the Commission in an extraordinary session to discuss the Rapid Border Intervention ongoing in the Eastern Mediterranean, and in particular, the allegations of so-called pushbacks recently reported in the media. The Management Board takes note of the report of the Executive Director on the “Rapid Border Intervention in the Eastern Mediterranean” and of the fact that the Executive Director ...
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2016-03-23
Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri has called on EU Member States to come forward with additional police officers and readmission experts to support Greece in returning migrants to Turkey. Following a call for officers issued by Frontex on Friday, 18 March, Member States have so far offered 396 police officers of the 1500 requested. Frontex has also received offers to provide 47 of the 50 readmission experts the agency asked for. “I am grateful to the countries who have offered police ...
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2010-11-05
Orestiada, Cecilia Malmström and Ilkka Laitinen Orestiada, November 5 — Greek Minister of Citizen Protection Christos Papoutsis, French Minister of Immigration Éric Besson and Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen accompanied European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström on a visit to the Greek-Turkish land border today to meet members of the Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) deployed by Frontex at the request of the Greek government. Following a tour of the border area ...
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2010-10-26
Warsaw, 26 October – Today, Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen signed a decision to deploy Rapid Border Intervention Teams to Greece after a request from Greek authorities.“Frontex stands ready to assist Greece by activating the RABIT mechanism in this urgent and exceptional situation in order to augment Greece’s national efforts to deal with this problem” he said. Staff from the newly-opened Frontex Operational Office based in Piraeus have already arrived at the Greek-Turkish border to ...
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