Article van Laure Akai in Hot Bulletin voor het liberaire Alternatief voor het Europees Sociaal Forum (ESF)
27 January 2009 - The planner voor een Europees leger, zoals die in the Europese grondwet indertijd werden voorgespiegeld one now in het verdragen van Lisbon uitgewerkt worden, staan \u200b\u200bniet op themselves. The police paramilitary units have powers. If we want to know what the European army should then give an example of FRONTEX. Her job is foreign and thus eliminate the Fortress Europe free from blemishes. [editorial]
FRONTEX, the "European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union". Frontex has been active since 2005 and headquartered in Warsaw. It not only trains the border police and other units (such as RABITS, Rapid Border Intervention Teams, and sea patrols), but coordinates operations to capture and charter deportations of immigrants, migrant communities and the patrol collects information about them.
It is now probably the most important institution that the border policy of Fortress Europe and the border states outside Europe argues further, especially with extensive operations at sea.
Organisations working with refugees from the West Coast of Africa have pointed out that with the advent of Frontex, more and more refugees in serious danger and even death. People who want to migrate, for example, by boat to the Canary Islands will be forced to take longer and more dangerous routes to avoid the Frontex patrols. Since the trip took two to five days at sea, now it may take 15-20 days. The result is that there are routes through the Sahara are chosen with the result that there deaths.
Like all institutions that prey on migrants Frontex claims that it operates efficiently, but the limited number of human casualties. There are no reliable figures for the total number of victims of the migration policy of the EU, but is thought thousands of people. This includes not only those at sea or in the desert to die, but also those who are shot in attempting to cross borders in Ceuta (an autonomous city of Spain, which is located on the Mediterranean, the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar) to climb over fences, those who are killed during deportation or those who die in detention. This situation threatens to get worse because Frontex RABITS coordinate training exercises with which weapons are used.
the Frontex regulation was recently amended. Vuorensola, Legal Adviser of Frontex, said recently that the power to limit operations to bear arms and use can now be carried out under EU law. In a British study on the issue said that Frontex British border guards with them to RABIT operations are indeed endowed with "certain responsibilities and executive powers" in the UK they would not have. Frontex claims that the Frontex regulation over all national constitutions, legal experts from Member States of RABIT have no clear answer. More information about Frontex
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Frontex.info.pl
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