Podcast 124 - Policing The Borders Of Paradise As Schengen Disintegrates
Socialist correspondent
- Published
- February 18, 2025
- Duration
- 24:11
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses Frontex, the EU border agency is armed and is the only EU body to have a uniform. It's task is to gu…
Summary
Frontex, the EU border agency is armed and is the only EU body to have a uniform. It's task is to guard the EU's borders and to implement the aggressive push back of migrants trying to escape war and poverty to reach Europe. With an increasing budget it also operates unaccountably. But as the EU tries to maintain "Fortress Europe" it's own system designed…
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Frontex, the EU border agency is armed and is the only EU body to have a uniform. It's task is to guard the EU's borders and to implement the aggressive push back of migrants trying to escape war and poverty to reach Europe. With an increasing budget it also operates unaccountably. But as the EU tries to maintain "Fortress Europe" it's own system designed to maintain free-movement of labour within the Schengen Agreement area is beginning to fall apart. There are increasing numbers of instances o