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MEPs withhold discharge of EU border control agency Frontex’ accounts

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Frontex European Parliament

05 April 2022

Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) press release details reasons behind postponement of the decision on the European Border and Coast guard Agency accounts for 2020.

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31 March 2022: MEPs withhold discharge of EU border control agency Frontex’ accounts (European Parliament, link).

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