Border police

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

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

See Art. 77 TFEU.  

Links

See also Operation Odysseus.

Frontex http://europa.eu/agencies/comm......_agencies/frontex/index_en.htm