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EU: Frontex chief looks beyond EU borders

14 January 2012

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Frontex, the pan-European border agency based in Warsaw, is mandated to co-ordinate member state border police patrols on Europe's external frontiers.

But its executive director, Ilkka Laitinen, told EUobserver the agency is looking to expand its surveillance operations beyond the EU to develop a so-called "common pre-frontier intelligence picture [CPIP]."

See: Frontex chief looks beyond EU borders (EUobserver)

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