Frontex gets 17,000 extra officers for deportations while human-rights monitoring suffers downgrade

The EU's Frontex border force is being revamped to include 17,000 personnel for deportations, while human rights oversight is reduced and its power to halt operations over rights abuses is diminished. This overhaul aims to enhance Frontex's role in deportations, despite claims of maintaining strong fundamental rights protections. However, discrepancies exist between the officials' statements and the details in the proposal released later, leaving reporters unable to scrutinize the content beforehand.