Frontex and pushbacks: Management Board decision setting up the working group to investigate
15 January 2021
The Management Board Working Group on Fundamental Rights and Legal and Operational Aspects of Operations will be made up of representatives of Germany; Greece, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and the European Commission.
On 26 November, the Frontex Management Board approved a decision setting up a working group to: a) conduct inquiries in relation to the allegations of so-called pushbacks in the Eastern Mediterranean in 2020 and, where mandated by separate decisions of the Management Board, in relation to any such allegations into other operational activities of the Agency;