Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability
As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.
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As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.
Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.
The warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads.
It’s a lot easier to ignore the plight of the refugees at Europe’s borders if one doesn’t hear their stories.