| Statewatch |
| 10/05/2013 |
Statewatch News: "Field
testing: CLOSEYE project puts drones over the Mediterranean" |
|
|
| 04/2013 |
Marie Martin:
“If at first you don’t succeed”...European Commission proposes new
rules on interception and disembarkation during Frontex sea operations
|
|
|
| 03/2013 |
Marie Martin: Trust
in Frontex: The 2013 work programme |
|
|
| 10/2012 |
Chris Jone: Secretive
Frontex Working Group seeks to increase surveillance of travellers
(originally published in Statewatch journal volume 22/3)
|
|
|
| 24/10/2012 |
Marie Martin: Criticism
mounts of Frontex's operations at sea - “I try to avoid giving the
impression I’m somehow sneaking out of the responsibility”,
Frontex’s Executive Director on search and rescue at sea |
|
|
| 27/09/2012 |
FRONTEX Fundamental Rights Strategy: Statewatch
and Migreurop’s joint submission to the Ombudsman of the European Union
(available also in
French) |
|
|
| 08/2012 |
Italy buys helicopters through Frontex (see p.3
of that
document) |
|
|
| 15/05/2012 |
Statewatch: A
drop of fundamental rights in an ocean of unaccountability: Frontex in
the process of implementing Article 26(a) |
|
|
| 09/05/2012 |
Statewatch: ECJ
General Advocate’s opinion on sea surveillance and the Schengen Borders
Code: reasserting the Parliament’s legislative role, re-opening the
Frontex debate? |
|
|
| 03/2012 |
Member
States and "friends" gear up for "smart borders" |
|
|
| 03/2012 |
The
reinforcement of Frontex and the intensification of cooperation with
third countries |
|
|
| 09/2011 |
Yasha Maccanico: The
EU’s self-interested response to unrest in north Africa: the meaning of
treaties and readmission agreements between Italy and north African
states, Statewatch Bulletin 21 (3) |
|
|
| 09/2011 |
Marie Martin: The
Arab Spring and the death toll in the Mediterranean: the true face of
Fortress Europe, Statewatch Bulletin 21 (3) |
|
|
| 07/2011 |
Proposal for a Regulation amending Council
Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the
Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the
Member States of the European Union (Frontex) - Analysis
of the final compromise text with the view to agreement, by
Steve Peers, Professor or Law, University of Essex |
|
|
| 07/2011 |
The
Frontex Regulation – Consolidated text after 2011 amendments, Steve
Peers, Professer of Law (University of Essex) |
|
|
| 06/2010 |
Tony Bunyan: EU:
First thoughts on the EU's internal security strategy,
Statewatch Bulletin 20 (2) |
|
|
| 03/2010 |
Statewatch: Surveillance
of the sea external borders with the involvement of Frontex: the LIBE
Committee opposes the adoption of the European Commission Draft Council
decision |
|
|
| 09/2009 |
Vassilis Tsianos: Notes
on the high-tech industry of European Border Control: migration control
and the arms industry in EU security research policy,
Statewatch Bulletin 19 (3) |
|
|
| 11/2003 |
Ben Hayes: Cover-up!
Proposed Regulation on European Border Guard hides unaccountable,
operational bodies |
|
|
| 05/2002 |
Steve Peers, Professor of Law (University
of Essex): European
Commission: EU Border Control Communication |
|
| Meijers
Committee |
| 26/09/2012 |
Public
consultation on Frontex and fundamental rights |
|
|
| 20/09/2011 |
Proposal
for a Regulation amending the Schengen Borders Code (COM(2011)118 final) |
|
|
| 04/04/2008 |
Views
on the Commission report on the evaluation and future development of
the Frontex agency |
|
|
| 06/11/2007 |
Proposal
to give law enforcement authorities access to Eurodac |
| Migreurop |
| 27/09/2012 |
EU: FRONTEX Fundamental Rights Strategy: Statewatch
and Migreurop’s joint submission to the Ombudsman of the European Union
(available also in
French) |
|
|
| 20/04/2012 |
New
Group Deportation Flight Coordinated by FRONTEX as means of Collective
Expulsion towards Serbia : Rights violation and the impunity of
member-states, Joint press release by Migreurop, Chachipe,
ROM e.V. Köln, Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachen, Roma Center Göttingen,
European Network Against Racism (ENAR) (also available in French,
Serbian, Spanish) |
|
|
| 13/03/2012 |
Germany-Serbia
: another charter flight to Serbia organised by FRONTEX (also
available in German, French, Serbian, Spanish, Italian) |
|
|
| 02/2012 |
At
the margins of Europe: the externalisation of border controls |
|
|
| 14/11/2011 |
Press release: Our
ideas are much better than your destructive policies |
|
|
| 05/2011 |
Study conducted by Migreurop on the
European External Borders Agency in view of the revision of its mandate
(commissioned by the Greens-EFA group at the European Parliament) - Frontex
Agency: Which Guarantees for Human Rights? |
|
|
| 10/2010 |
European
borders - controls, detention and deportation |
| United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
| 10/2010 |
UNHCR’s
observations on the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation of
the European Parliament and the Council amending Council Regulation
(EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the
Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the
Member States of the European Union (Frontex), COM(2010)61 final |
| Human
rights violations / Human rights aspects |
| 01/01/2013 |
'An
Introduction to Frontex: Human Rights' by N.Perowski, in
Fahamu
Refugee Legal Aid Network's Newsletter (Issue 33). Third
article
of a series of three, see article 1 (November
2012) and 2 (December
2012) |
|
|
| 01/12/2012 |
'An
Introduction to Frontex: Frequent Criticism" by N.Perowski,
in Fahamu Refugee Legal
Aid Network's Newsletter (Issue 32). Second article of a
series of three, see article 1 (November
2012) |
|
|
| 31/10/2012 |
'An
Introduction to Frontex: Its Foundations and Developments' by
N.Perowski, in Fahamu
Refugee Legal Aid Network's Newsletter (Issue 31). First
article of a series of three (see above) |
|
|
| 04/10/2012 |
'Hirsi
Jamaa and Others v Italy or the Strasbourg Court versus
Extraterritorial Migration Control?' by V. Moreno-Lax, in
Human Rights Law Review 12(3) |
|
|
| 28/09/2012 |
Trans Europe Expert (doc. in French): Réponse
à la consultation pour l’enquête d’initiative lancée sur le respect par
l’Agence Frontext de ses obligations relatives aux droits fondamentaux
- OI/5/2012/BEH-MHZ |
|
|
| 26/09/2012 |
ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioner's
Association): Submission
to the public consultation by the European Ombudsman on Frontex and
Fundamental Rights |
|
|
| 18/09/2012 |
Caritas Europa: Letter
to the EU Ombudsman regarding Frontex's Fundamental Rights Strategy |
|
|
| 05/09/2012 |
Luisa Marin: Policing the EU's External
Borders: A
Challenge for the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights in the Area of
Freedom, Security and Justice? An Analysis of Frontex Joint Operations
at the Southern Maritime Border, Journal of Contemporary
European Research 7(4) pp. 468-487 (article sent to the European
Ombudsman in the context of his inquiry on Frontex) |
|
|
| 17/08/2012 |
"Comments
in relation to your public inquiry into the implementation by Frontex
of its fundamental rights obligation" by A.Fotiadis |
|
|
| 06/08/2012 |
Human Rights Watch: Letter
to the European Ombudsman regarding the implementation by Frontex of
its fundamental rights obligations |
|
|
| 02/08/2012 |
Jesuit Refugee Service Europa:
Letter to the EU Ombudsman regarding Frontex's Fundamental Rights
Strategy |
|
|
| 24/07/2012 |
"Important
opinion on Frontex and human rights", by G.Habib |
|
|
| 20/07/2012 |
"Enhancing
Frontex's role and improving the consideration for fundamental rights",
section 2 of MA's dissertation, by P.G. Van Wolleghem |
|
|
| 01/07/2012 |
Stefanie Grant: Refugee
and migrant protection at sea: lessons from the Mediterranean,
Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter |
|
|
| 04/04/2012 |
Chachipe: Selective
Freedom The Visa Liberalisation and Rest rictions on the Right to
Travel in the Balkans |
|
|
| 09/2011 |
Human Rights Watch:
The EU’s Dirty Hands Frontex Involvement in Ill-Treatment of Migrant
Detainees in Greece |
|
|
| 08/2011 |
Implementation
of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its Impact on EU Home
Affairs Agencies. Frontex, Europol and the European Asylum Support
Office, study by Elspeth Guild, Sergio Carrera, Leonhard den
Hertog, and Joanna Parkin, Policy Department C Citizens' Rights and
Constitutional Affairs |
|
|
| 07/2011 |
Violeta Moreno-Lax: Seeking
Asylum in the Mediterranean: Against a Fragmentary Reading of EU Member
States' Obligations Accruing at Sea, International Journal of
Refugee Law 23 (23) |
|
|
| 29/06/2011 |
Letter
to Frontex in relation to their study on unaccompanied minors in the
migration process, by SCEP (Separated Children in Europe
Programme), Save The Children and Human Rights Watch |
|
|
| 22/06/2011 |
European Parliament's press release (EU
doc. no. 20110622IPR22352) Frontex
border guard teams and fundamental rights |
|
|
| 2011 |
2010
Irish Refugee Council Annual Report - reports in particular
abuse of migrants during joint return flights |
|
|
| 18/01/2011 |
European Parliament: Question for written
answer to the Commission by Georgios Papanikolaou (PPE) "Article
in Der Spiegel on use
of violence by Greek police to prevent illegal entry of immigrants into
Greece" |
|
|
| 30/09/2010 |
Association Européenne des Droits de
l'Homme: The
AEDH questions EU agency FRONTEX during the visit of the Delegation of
the European Parliament, available also in French
and Italian |
|
|
| 2010 |
Violeta Moreno-Lax: Searching
Responsibilities and Rescuing Rights: Frontex, the Draft Guidelines for
Joint Maritime Operations and Asylum Seeking in the Mediterranean, REFGOV
WP Series FR-28 |
|
|
| 09/2010 |
Amnesty International and ECRE: Briefing
on the Commission proposal for a Regulation amending Council Regulation
(EC) 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of
Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of
the European Union (Frontex) |
|
|
| 25/03/2010 |
European Parliament, press release (EU doc.
no. 20100324IPR71287) Migrants
at sea: guidelines for EU border patrols |
|
|
| 24/03/2010 |
"Frontex: la guerre aux migrants", conference
organised by the Belgian League for Human Rights (Ligue des Droits de
l'Homme belge).
Link to the audio document |
|
|
| 06/2010 |
Alain Morice & Claire Rodier: Comment
l'Union Européenne enferme ses voisins - Les contrôles migratoires
sous-traités aux pays-extérieurs |
|
|
| 2009 |
JRS Europe: Comments
by JRS Europe on the FRONTEX General Report 2009 and the proposed
amendments to the FRONTEX regulation |
|
|
| 04/2009 |
JRS Europe: Democratic
controls for the administration of the Southern border: A proposal to
the Members of the European Parliament attending the seventh legislature |
|
|
| 10/12/2008 |
ProAsyl: Petition
to European Parliament to "Stop the death trap at the European Borders!" |
|
|
| 09/2008 |
German Institute for Human Rights: Human
Rights at the EU’s common external maritime border: Recommendations to
the EU legislature, by Ruth Weinzierl |
|
|
| 03/2008 |
Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de
Andalucía: Derechos
Humanos en la Frontera Sur 2007 (Human Rights at the
Southern Border 2007), |
|
|
| 12/2007 |
ECRE: Defending
Refugees’ Access to Protection in Europe |
|
|
| 24/09/2007 |
British Refugee Council and the European
Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE): Joint
response to Select Committee on the European Union Sub-Committee F
(Home Affairs): Frontex Inquiry |
| Border
control technologies |
| 06/2012 |
Dirk Godenau:
An Institutional Approach to Bordering in Islands: The Canary Islands
on the African- European Migration Routes, Island Studies
Journal, 7(1) |
|
|
| 06/2012 |
Control(s)
at the European Borders by the No Border network |
|
|
| 11/2010 |
Quaker-ERSC: Security
cooperation between the EU and Israel, see especially
paragraph on "The European Security Research and Innovation Forum
(ESRIF)" |
|
|
| 03/2009 |
Andrew W. Neal: Securitization
and Risk at the EU Border: The Origins of Frontex, Journal of Common
Market Studies, 47 (2) |
|
|
| 06/2008 |
Julien Jeandesboz: Reinforcing
the Surveillance of EU Borders: The Future Development of Frontex and
EUROSUR, Briefing Paper, Directorate General Internal
Policies of the Union, Policy Department C Citizens' Rights and
Constitutional Affairs |
|
|
| Further
documentation |
| 07/2012 |
Kostas Infantis: Addressing
Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean, Centre for European
Studies |
|
|
| 05/2012 |
Anti-Frontex days
in Warsaw (Poland) organised by No Border |
|
|
| 10/01/2012 |
Jean Jeandesboz: Contrôles
aux frontières de l’Europe: Frontex et l’espace Schengen |
|
|
| 01/2012 |
Sarah Wolff and Adriaan Schout:
FRONTEX: More of the Same? Paper
presented at the EUSIM – The Governance of Asylum and Migration in the
European Union, University of Salford – Centre for European Security –
26-27 January 2012 |
|
|
| 05/04/2011 |
Letter
from: Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, to: Mr
Sándor Pinter, Hungarian Minister of the Interior |
|
|
| 03/2011 |
Claire Rodier: La Petite
Muette, Vacarme vol.55 (in French) |
|
|
| 2011 |
Christian Drapier, "Frontex
dans le contexte de la situation a la frontière gréco-turque",
CERISCOPE Frontières |
|
|
| 01/2010 |
Efthymios Papastavridis: ‘Fortress
Europe’ and Frontex: Within or Without International Law?,
Nordic Journal of International Law 79 (1) |
|
|
| 2010 |
Theodoros Katsoufros, Frontex:
Entre coopération intergouvernmentale au niveau des Etats membres et
méthode communautaire |
|
|
| 12/2009 |
Rambøll, Euroéval, Matrix Insight: Evaluation
of the EU decentralised agencies in 2009 - Final Report Volume I,
Synthesis and prospects, Evaluation for the European
Commission (ABAC Contract No. 30-CE-0230814/00) |
|
|
| 08/2009 |
Johannes Pollak & Peter Slominski: Experimentalist
but not Accountable Governance? The Role of Frontex in Managing the
EU's External Borders, West European Politics, 32 (5) |
|
|
| 08/2009 |
Informationsstelle Militarisierung, Frontex
- Widersprüche
im erweiterten Grenzraum (Frontex - Contradictions
in an enlarged border area) |
|
|
| 2009 |
Frontex:
Lecture critique, Maud Marie Boliveau, Master II d’Etudes
Humanitaires Internationales Faculté de Droit d’Aix-en-Provence
(Masters' Thesis) |
|
|
| 06/2008 |
European Parliament - Briefing paper by
Julien Jeandesboz, Policy Department C Citizens' Rights and
Constitutional Affairs: An
analysis of the Commission Communications on future development of
Frontex and the creation of a European Surveillance System (EUROSUR) |
|
|
| 05/03/2008 |
House of Lords European Union Committee
(9th Report of Session 2007–08): Frontex:
the EU external borders agency. Report with Evidence |
|
|
| 01/2008 |
Human Rights Watch, World
Report 2008 (see especially chapter on the European Union
pp.383-396) |
|
|
| 09/2007 |
European Centre for Constitutional Rights
and Democracy, Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano, LL.M.
und Tillmann Löhr, Menschen-
und flüchtlingsrechtliche Anforderungen an Maßnahmen der Grenzkontrolle
auf See |
|
|
| 23/04/2007 |
Sergio Carrera: The
EU Border Management Strategy Frontex and the Challenges of Irregular
Immigration in the Canary Islands, CEPS Working Document No.
261 |
|
|
| 03/2007 |
Hélène Jorry: Construction
of a European Institutional Model for Managing Operational Cooperation
at the EU’s External Borders:is the FRONTEX Agency a decisive step
forward? CEPS Research Paper No.6 |
|
|
| 03/2007 |
Managing
the EU's external frontiers: Lessons to be learned from Frontex's
action in the Canary Islands by Miriam Mir
(CHALLENGE, pdf) |
|
|
| 2006 |
Jörg Monar: The
Project of a European Border Guard: Origins, Models and Prospects in
the Context of the EU’s Integrated External Border Management |
