Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Status Agreement

  • What is Frontex doing in Senegal? Secret services also participate in their network of “Risk Analysis Cells”

    What is Frontex doing in Senegal? Secret services also participate in their network of “Risk Analysis Cells”

    Frontex has been allowed to conclude stationing agreements with third countries since 2016. However, the government in Dakar does not currently want the EU border police in the country. Nevertheless, Frontex has been active there since 2006. When Frontex was founded in 2004, the EU states wrote into its border agency’s charter that it could […]

  • Frontex wants to disembark refugees in Senegal

    Frontex wants to disembark refugees in Senegal

    “Hera” is the only Frontex maritime mission on the territory of a third country. A new agreement might extend this joint border surveillance The EU border agency Frontex wants to bring back refugees picked up in the Atlantic Ocean to Senegal. The EU Commission should therefore negotiate a so-called Status Agreement with the government in […]

  • Frontex expands operations in EU neighbouring countries

    Frontex expands operations in EU neighbouring countries

    After Albania and Montenegro, the EU Commission has concluded a Frontex status agreement with Serbia, to be followed by Northern Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. A first deployment of the EU border troops has meanwhile been increased. The European Commission has now also signed an arrangement with Serbia on “cooperation on border management”. The so-called status agreement […]