“Frontex, this thing which has two helicopters and which is supposed to protect and control the borders of the entire European Union”.
It was in 2015. Marine Le Pen castigated the very controversial EU agency, which is still struggling today to stem the migration crisis.
Nine years later, the “thing” has grown and it is the former director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, who joins the nationalist camp, as future number three on the RN list for Europeans.
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This senior French official had a dream: to transform the European border surveillance agency into a real operational tool to fight against illegal immigration.
After the major disruptions resulting from the Arab revolutions, the collapse of Libya, and the war in Syria, the project has, it is true, had the wind in its sails.
But it turned into a nightmare for Leggeri when the machine, subject to headwinds from powerful...
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