Brussels Flexes Its Muscles: Frontex to Be Replaced by Super Border Agency
SputnikNews.com
11.12.2015
Brussels’ latest response to the refugee crisis is to take full control of the bloc’s external borders, replacing the European Union’s border control agency – Frontex.
The proposal to create a European border force operated by a single country would represent the biggest transfer of sovereignty since the creation of the single currency — and Brussels would be in charge.
The plan seen by the Financial Times would allow Brussels the power to hire and control its own border guards; buy its own equipment; operate in non EU countries and deport people who do not have the right to remain in Europe, as well as having the power to defy any objection made by any other government.
The influx of 1.2 million migrants and refugees into Europe has led to chaotic scenes at many of the bloc’s borders. Another reason for a new border agency — as cited by Brussels — is that it would have the power to operate in non-EU members of the Schengen zone, such as Serbia and Macedonia, which are part of the well-trodden Western Balkan route used by thousands of migrants.
At the moment, Frontex can only coordinate the protection of borders — not enforce them.
“The refugee crisis has shown the limitations of the current EU border agency, Frontex, to effectively address and remedy the situation created by the pressure on Europe’s external borders,” said Dimitris Avramopoulos, the man responsible for the EU’s migration policy.
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