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Last December (2009), the European Union decided upon the Stockholm Programme, its 5-year-plan for Justice and Home Affairs (check here and here). The Programme itself is more of a framework and doesn’t conclusively state what is exactly to come. For that, there is the Stockholm Action Programme.

Statewatch released the Commission Proposal, along with an analysis and a briefing. For more information, see also here.

I started to extract all activities mentioned in the plan connected to Frontex. But since Frontex is only a part of the European border and migration regime, I extracted more relevant parts and highlighted what I found relevant (there is an extra part titled “Effective policies to combat illegal immigration”!). Here it is:

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So the Commission proposed an amendment to the Frontex regulation.

Here are the official documents:

COM(2010) 61 final: Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX)

SEC(2010) 149: COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT accompanying the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX)

SEC(2010) 150: COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT accompanying the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX)

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Today, February 24 2010, the European Commission through its Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, has proposed a new Regulation to strengthen Frontex.

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Seit heute verfügbar: Die neue Frontexbroschüre, herausgegeben von der Informationsstelle Militarisierung und dort auch erhältlich: Frontex – Widersprüche im erweiterten Grenzraum. Inhaltsverzeichnis Grundlagen Einleitung der Karawane für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen, München Frontex: Das nachrichtendienstliche Vorfeld Operative Einsätze an den Außengrenzen Das Agenturwesen der EU Die Evaluierungen von Frontex und das Border Package Frontex im Einsatz Abschiebeagentur Frontex? Von Grauzonen und Legalisierungen [...]

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Schon klar, war eine längere Pause. Viel ist passiert, wenig ist hier geschrieben worden. Jetzt soll es aber weitergehen.

Italien scheint ja mit seinem Vorhaben, Libyen in das Grenzregime einzubinden, voranzukommen. Dafür hat Italien schon mal 3.7 Mrd. Euro springen lassen, aber es bleibt weiter teuer. Die Times of Malta weiß:

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