Border police

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Border police

Five member states have started patrolling against illegal immigration by sea in the Mediterranean and Atlantic as a pilot project for a future common EU border police.

The EU established the agency Frontex for border control in Poland in 2004. In 2006 the EU established a common EU coastguard to combat illegal refugees from the Canary Islands

See Art. 77 TFEU.

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