“The European Union has announced it will be massively increasing the number of agents at its Frontex border agency, from 1,500 today to around 10,000 by the year 2027,” but the move, despite assurances by European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulosis, is not what it appears to be. The possible intention is worrying. The Hungarian government warns that the EU is there to manage, not to protect the borders; but the intention is actually to “stop national border agencies in anti-mass migration countries from keeping them shut.”
This suggests that migrants will now be escorted into Europe by security forces, which will be investing taxpayer money into their own “ships and aeroplanes.” Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache described the Frontex border agency as a “people trafficking organisation.”
EU member states which have been opposed to mass migration have been labelled anti-democratic, “racist” and “illiberal.” The EU has attempted to bully those states into accepting migrant quotas with threats of court actions and cuts in funding. Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary have remained steadfast in opposing mass migration, mostly from Africa and the Middle East.
“EU to Increase Border Guards By Nearly Ten Times,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, April 22, 2019:
The European Union has announced it will be massively increasing the number of agents at its Frontex border agency, from 1,500 today to around 10,000 by the year 2027.
The new policy was adopted by MEPs earlier this week and will see the border agency gradually increase personnel to monitor the political bloc’s common external border, though not all countries within the bloc are pleased with the move, RTS reports.
The main opposition to the new plan was voiced by two of the border states within the EU, Greece and Italy, who argued that the move could be an attempt by the EU to interfere in their domestic affairs.
European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos attempted to ease the worries of the two nations, saying, “there is not a shadow of a doubt, there can be no intervention by the agency without the express consent of the Member States concerned or third countries concerned.”
The expansion of Frontex will also see the agency given a huge budget increase, which will allow it to deploy agents beyond the European Union and to invest in its own ships and aeroplanes.
Frontex has been criticised by other sovereigntist figures in the past including populist Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, who said it was, “anything but a border guard” and even labelled Frontex a “people trafficking organisation” in May of last year.
Hungarian State Secretary for International Communications and Relations Dr Zoltán Kovács also warned in March that the expansion of Frontex would undermine Hungarian national sovereignty.
“It’s never ‘strengthening’ or ‘defending’ borders. It’s always about ‘managing’ them and that’s a euphemism for immigration,” Kovács said.
The Hungarian government has suggested the EU wants to reinforce its role in border management not to protect Europe’s frontiers, but to stop national border agencies in anti-mass migration countries from keeping them shut…..