Hans Leijtens takes over as executive director of Frontex in March, as the EU's border agency is struggling to defend its credibility. Will he be able to deliver? When Hans Leijtens, the new executive ...

This article was produced in partnership with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization based in Washington that focuses on reporting about environmental and human rights crimes at ...

Greek border guards have been forcing large numbers of refugees back to sea in pushback operations that violate international law. DER SPIEGEL and its reporting partners have learned that the European ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The camera lingers first on the EU’s circle of stars insignia and then shifts to a close-up of the officer’s ...

The EU’s anti-fraud office has found that the European border agency covered up and helped to finance illegal pushbacks of asylum-seekers in Greece. The report, which DER SPIEGEL has obtained, puts ...

EU border agents are failing to report rights violations committed against migrants and refugees on the Albanian-Greek border, according to an investigation by BIRN. In February last year, Aija ...

Men transfer body bags carrying people who died after the vessel they were in sank off Greece, from a Greek coastguard vessel at the port of Kalamata, Greece, on June 14, 2023 [Stelios Misinas/Reuters ...

Hans Leijtens, the executive director of Frontex, responded on Tuesday to the findings of the European Ombudsman, who found severe shortcomings in the agency's mandate, operations and relations with ...

A Libyan Coast Guard vessel Ras Jadir tries to intercept a boat on July 30, 2021. The image was captured by the aeroplane Seabird [Courtesy of David Lohmüller and Adrian Pourviseh/Sea-Watch] In the ...