Activities of Tobias PFLÜGER related to 2008/2157(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Evaluation and future development of FRONTEX EUROSUR
Amendments (6)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that the operations of Frontex have the aim of protecting the EU, conceived as an 'area of security, freedom and justice', against immigration, that a border area is coming into existence which lacks security, freedom and justice and where on the contrary extraterritorial camps exist, a border area where militarised border control units hunt migrants, where a right to asylum only nominally exists and where every day people die who have set out for Europe;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses furthermore that the existence of, and the operations carried out to date by, Frontex have done much to further promote the process of deterritorialisation, as a result of which the 'borders' of the European Union are in effect being redefined, and that this process urgently needs to be halted;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers there to be an urgent need to terminate the operational cooperation which Frontex undertakes with border control forces and the far-reaching cooperation with domestic authorities, transport undertakings, consulates, embassies, etc., which is accompanied by a veritable exchange of data;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers it proven that Frontex's practices hamper rescue operations at sea, systematically deny rights guaranteed by the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and thus condemn people to death;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers it necessary, for the above reasons, to close Frontex down as soon as possible and proposes that the funding so released be used for programmes of aid to refugees and to legalise the status of 'illegal' immigrants living in the Member States;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6