Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Agencies

Tabled by Virginie Joron

Added: 43 b. Recalls that agencies must focus on their core tasks; denounces the intrusion of an ideology promoted by politically left-wing NGOs, supported by the European Commission and increasingly present in recent years; regrets the increase in staff and budget allocated to fundamental rights monitoring at the expense of officers of the standing corps of European Border and Coast Guard Agency, as recalled by its Executive Director in 20242a, thereby at times hindering the Agency in the fulfilment of its core mission; stresses that all Frontex activities and resources must remain focused on border protection, the fight against cross-border crime, the prevention of irregular migration and the effective return of persons not legally entitled to stay; calls for the redeployment of resources to ensure that means are concentrated on essential border management tasks, the continued recruitment of operational frontline staff at the Union's external borders, and the rationalisation of administrative posts; 2a https://fr.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/03/05/nous-ne-sommes-pas-lagence-europeenne-de-sauvetage-souligne-le-directeur-de-frontex

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.206