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Frontex launches EU-wide recruitment campaign: ‘Serve People. Protect Europe.’

Frontex launches EU-wide recruitment campaign: ‘Serve People. Protect Europe.’

2025-12-12

The European Border and Coast Guard Agency is recruiting to strengthen its Standing Corps, including an entry route for applicants without a formal policing background.

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EU external borders: irregular crossings fall by a quarter in the first 11 months of 2025

EU external borders: irregular crossings fall by a quarter in the first 11 months of 2025

2025-12-12

Irregular entries into the European Union dropped by 25% in the first eleven months of 2025 to just over 166 900, according to preliminary data from Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.

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Frontex, Europol and national authorities seize over 420,000 counterfeit items and 17.5 million cigarettes at EU borders

Frontex, Europol and national authorities seize over 420,000 counterfeit items and 17.5 million cigarettes at EU borders

2025-12-10

Frontex and Europol carried out Joint Action Days “Pirates 3”, a major operation targeting cross-border crime. Officers detected 64 irregular border crossings and seized more than 420,000 counterfeit goods, 17.5 million cigarettes and 1.1 million euro in undeclared cash.

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New Frontex study shows how Earth Observation technology can strengthen EU border security

New Frontex study shows how Earth Observation technology can strengthen EU border security

2025-12-05

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, has published a new study on how Earth observation satellites and related technologies can help national authorities monitor borders, detect cross-border crime and save lives in an increasingly complex security environment.

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Strengthening Independent Monitoring under the Pact on Migration and Asylum

Strengthening Independent Monitoring under the Pact on Migration and Asylum

2025-12-03

Frontex, National Human Rights and Ombuds institutions and EU partners came together to strengthen cooperation on independent monitoring under the Pact on Migration and Asylum.

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Stronger air borders for safer Europe

Stronger air borders for safer Europe

2025-11-28

More than 110 border guard leaders from 37 countries met in Nice on 21–22 October for the annual Operational Heads of Airports Conference, strengthening cooperation on air border management, border controls digitalisation and responses to migration flows and cross-border crime.

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