Frontex and Spain reach an agreement 'in extremis' to resume operations against irregular immigration. Both parties sign the operational plan and recover the activities of the European border agency that were suspended since last Wednesday.
The key was the resistance of the Spanish authorities to “lose ownership and responsibility” of the personal data obtained from immigrants, according to Interior sources. Without an agreement, there was no legal basis to act and all the agency's activity was paralyzed, as EL PAÍS revealed last Thursday.