First meeting of the Frontex Scrutiny Group with Leggeri and Johansson
The EP Frontex Scrutiny Working Group (FSWG) will meet on Thursday with the agency’s Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri and Commissioner Ylva Johansson.
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. Suspicions of mismanagement led to several inquiries, both internally and by different EU bodies, such as OLAF (the EU’s anti-fraud office) and the Ombudsman’s office.
Chaired by Roberta Metsola (EPP, MT), the FSWG will carry out a fact-finding investigation in its first four months, gathering all relevant information and evidence regarding alleged violations of fundamental rights involving Frontex.
When: Thursday, 4 March, from 12.15 to 13.30
Where: European Parliament in Brussels, Spinelli building, room 3 E2, and via remote connection.
You can follow the discussion live.
Press briefing with Chair and rapporteur of the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group
EP Vice-President Roberta Metsola and Tineke Strik (Greens/EFA,NL), who will draft the report with the group’s recommendations, will share their impressions of their first meeting with Leggeri and Johansson and detail the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group’s objectives in a press briefing online on Friday 5 March at 12.30.
Journalists wishing to attend the press briefing should send their request to one of the following electronic addresses:
anna.zammit@europarl.europa.eu