According to the French daily “Le Figaro,” Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson will soon travel to Morocco to enhance cooperation with the country, as currently only 21 percent of migrants are being repatriated to their country of origin.
This Wednesday, the Dutchman Hans Leijtens, takes the reins of the European agency Frontex, in charge of the protection of the external borders of the Schengen area, as we know.
As we know, Dutchman Hans Leijtens will assume the leadership of Frontex, the European agency responsible for safeguarding the external borders of the Schengen area, starting this Wednesday.
Recall that in August 2021, Leggeri accused Morocco of using “irregular immigration as a weapon to destabilize the EU”. A few months earlier, the European Union had pushed Frontex to intervene to protect the Spanish borders, despite the reluctance of the Spanish Executive.
Leggeri will say later that “Morocco is deploying and has deployed enormous efforts in terms of migration management”.
As for the former interim executive director of Frontex, Aija Kalnaja, she underlined, at the end of October, Morocco’s role as a “reliable and credible partner in meeting common challenges”.
In January, during his only public appearance before the Brussels media, alongside Johansson, the new director of Frontex gave the main lines of his roadmap: “For me, there are three things: restoring trust, reorganizing the way Frontex works, and producing tangible results”.