Commissioner Johansson calls Frontex to account regarding push-back allegations

Question for written answer  E-000762/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Filip De Man (ID)

In January 2021, Commissioner Ylva Johansson confirmed that the EU needed a strong Frontex to protect the EU’s borders and values. In fact, however, she appears more concerned about the need to deploy 40 fundamental rights monitors, the appointment of three deputy executive directors and the allegations being directed against Frontex by NGOs with a manifestly open-border agenda.

Between 3.9 and 4.8 million irregular migrants are now present in the EU (Pew Research Centre, 2017). The vast majority of them are showing no signs of leaving, notwithstanding rejected asylum applications and deportation orders. In fact, Frontex has repatriated only a few hundred illegal migrants in the space of a few years and, in 2019, at least 141 700 entered the EU illegally.

In view of this, what specific measures will the Commission take to end the mass migrant influx into the Union and

remove the millions of illegals now present in its territory?