On 12 September 2018, the Commission came forward with a proposal for a new regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard as part of initiatives aiming to develop long-term migration policy. The proposal aims to reinforce the protection of the European Union external borders and to increase the efficiency of returning migrants in an irregular situation.

During the last Plenary session of its mandate the European Parliament approved the new law to strengthen the European Border and Coast Guard, to ensure better protection of EU external borders.

A new standing corps will be set up to support EU countries on the ground in border control and return tasks, as well as in the fight against cross-border crime. Starting with 5,000 operational staff in 2021, the standing corps will be fully operational by 2027 with 10,000 staff. In addition, a rapid reserve pool will be created for deployment in emergencies.

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MEPs delve into the management of Europe’s external borders and the role of the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency.  
Migratory pressures towards Europe are expected to increase and cross border-crime will continue to evolve in the context of geopolitical instabilities in the EU’s neighbourhood, requiring enhanced border management. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Parliament in July that Frontex could further increase its staff to 30 000 agents. MEPs quiz the Commission on technological solutions and possible changes to Frontex’s mandate. They are also likely to raise the issue of the instrumentalisation of migrants by third countries as well as fundamental rights violations at the EU’s borders.
This debate take place against the backdrop of the EU and its member states continuing to prepare for the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and, in particular the screening regulation, to improve security checks for persons arriving in the EU irregularly and speed up asylum and return procedures for those not entitled to international protection.

Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support

EP Plenary session - EU funding of physical border protection structures such as walls, fences or other barriers at the external border

EP Plenary session - Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support No resolution

LIBE Committee - Exchange of views on the incidents in Melilla with Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Spanish Minister of Interior

EP Plenary session - 2019 Discharge: European Border and Coast Guard Agency

Lesbos (Lesvos) - Molyvos military post overlooking Aegean Sea, some 10 kilometres away from Turkish Coast.

Integrated Border Management Fund Trilogue

Press conference - European Border and Coast Guard

Dimitris AVRAMOPOULOS in Plenary session week 27 2016 in Strasbourg. European Border and Coast Guard

Plenary session in Strasbourg - Week 27 2016 - European Border and Coast Guard

Press conference ' External border checks on EU citizens '

LIBE Committee meeting ' Checks in external border ' - Vote on Reinforcement of checks against relevant databases at external borders

TIMMERMANS, Frans (EC) - EC First Vice-President in charge of Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights

Press conference ' European Border and Coast Guard 'Press conference on The European Border

Plenary session week 51 2015 in Strasbourg    Decision adopted on the European border and coast guard package Commission statement

Refugee crisis. Brussels Parc Maximilien, where over 300 tents are in place. Hundreds of volunteers have been taking turns helping migrants arriving in Brussels for several weeks now, and teams of doctors, translators and cooks have been recruited.

SAR by Portuguese Viana do Castelo, Operation Poseidon 2015

ITALY, Pozzallo (RG) : an external view of C.P.S.A. of Pozzallo in southern sicily during the EP delegation visit on July 23, 2015.

SAR by Belgian vessel Godetia, Operation Triton

Make-shift shelter. New jungle next to migrant reception centre Jules Ferry.

MEPs delve into the management of Europe’s external borders and the role of the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency. This debate takes place against the backdrop of the EU and its member states continuing to prepare for the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and, in particular the screening regulation, to improve security checks for persons arriving in the EU irregularly and speed up asylum and return procedures for those not entitled to international protection. Closing statement by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of promoting our European Way of Life

Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders - need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support: closing statement by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission

MEPs delve into the management of Europe’s external borders and the role of the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency. This debate takes place against the backdrop of the EU and its member states continuing to prepare for the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and, in particular the screening regulation, to improve security checks for persons arriving in the EU irregularly and speed up asylum and return procedures for those not entitled to international protection.

Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders - need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support: MEPs debate (part 2)

Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders - need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs delve into the management of Europe’s external borders and the role of the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency. This debate takes place against the backdrop of the EU and its member states continuing to prepare for the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and, in particular the screening regulation, to improve security checks for persons arriving in the EU irregularly and speed up asylum and return procedures for those not entitled to international protection. opening statement by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders - need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support: opening statement by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission

Border crossing between Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus. Borders check point

Infoclip: border crossing between Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus

Debate on the escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU/Belarusian border. Statements of Josep BORRELL FONTELLES and MEPs Manfred WEBER (EPP, DE), Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ (S&D, ES), RóżaTHUN UND HOHENSTEIN (EPP, PL), Tineke STRIK (Greens/EFA, NL), Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)

Escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU/Belarusian border: extracts from the debate

Members of the EP committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) have an Exchange of views on FRONTEX. Opening statements by Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D,ES), LIBE Chair, by Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

Exchange of views on FRONTEX - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Opening statements by Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D,ES), LIBE Chair and by Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs

Members of the EP committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) have an Exchange of views on FRONTEX. Exchange of views and questions and answers.

Exchange of views on FRONTEX - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Exchange of views and Questions and answers

Members of the EP committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) have an Exchange of views on FRONTEX. Exchange of views and questions and answers 2/2

Exchange of views on FRONTEX - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Exchange of views and Questions and answers (part 2/2)

Members of the EP committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) have an Exchange of views on FRONTEX. Closing statements by Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D,ES), LIBE Chair, by Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs and by Fabrice LEGGERI, Frontex Executive Director. With Marko GAŠPERLIN, Chairperson of the Frontex Management Board (Interactio).

Exchange of views on FRONTEX - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Closing statements

Members of the EP committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) have an Exchange of views on FRONTEX. Statements Marko GAŠPERLIN, Chairperson of the Frontex Management Board (Interactio) and by Fabrice LEGGERI, Frontex Executive Director. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

Exchange of views on FRONTEX - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Statements Marko GAŠPERLIN, Chairperson of the Frontex Management Board (Interactio) and by Fabrice LEGGERI, Frontex Executive Director

The EP Frontex Scrutiny Working Group (FSWG) meet with Fabrice LEGGERI, Frontex Executive Director and Commissioner Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs in the European Parliament in Brussels. FSWG has been set up to assess the functioning of the European border agency on allegedly involvement in pushbacks of asylum-seekers and suspicions of mismanagement.

Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny meeting: opening statements by Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Fabrice LEGGERI, Frontex Executive Director

Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny meeting: exchange of views with Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Fabrice LEGGERI, Frontex Executive Director

Roberta METSOLA (PPE, MT), EP Vice-President, opens the first meeting of the Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny (FSWG - LIBE Committee) in the European Parliament in Brussels. The fourteen-member working group has been set up to assess the functioning of the European border agency, following media reports that it was allegedly involved in pushbacks of asylum-seekers in Aegean waters.

Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny meeting: Opening statement by Roberta METSOLA (PPE, MT), EP Vice-President

Arrivals and roundtable . The instrument for financial support for border management and visas aims to contribute to an adequate distribution of EU financial resources to most affected Member States and assist them in building up sufficient capacity to address the challenges they are facing.

Integrated Border Management Fund Trilogue: arrivals, roundtable and statements by Tanja FAJON (S&D, SI), rapporteur

Members of the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) exchange views concerning the Greek/Turkish border and respect for fundamental rights with Ylva JOHANSSON, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Michalis CHRISOCHOIDIS, Greek Minister for Citizen protection, Notis MITARACHI, Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, and with Fabrice LEGGERI, Executive Director of the European Union Agency (Frontex) and Minos MOUZOURAKIS, Legal Officer at Refugee Support Aegean (RSA). Statements by Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI (EPP, EL), Domènec RUIZ DEVESA (S&D, ES), Sophia IN'T VELD (RE, NL), Tineke STRIK (Greens/EFA, NL), Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D, ES), LIBE Chair.

The situation at the Greek/Turkish border and respect for fundamental rights: extracts from the exchange of views in LIBE

In the European Parliament in Brussels, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) MEPs assess the situation at the Greek external borders with Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi and Minister for Citizen Protection Michalis Chrisochoidis, Croatia’s State Secretary for European and International Affairs Terezija Gras, Commission Vice-President for Promoting the European way of life Margaritis Schinas, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson as well as representatives of Frontex and the Fundamental Rights Agency.

Ambiance shots of the LIBE meeting during the exchange of views on the situation at the Union’s external borders in Greece

David SASSOLI, EP President and Tytti TUPPURAINEN, Finnish Minister for European Affairs and President in office of the Council of the EU, sign various legislative acts such as the European Border and Coast Guard regulation, by rapporteur Roberta METSOLA (EPP, MT), in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Lex signing ceremony in presence of David SASSOLI, EP President and Tytti TUPPURAINEN, Finnish Minister for European Affairs, on the European Border and Coast Guard regulation, rapporteur Roberta METSOLA (EPP, MT)

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