The European Commission proposed Tuesday to strengthen the EU’s border agency Frontex, reinforcing its capacity to protect the external borders and turning it into the EU’s central actor for returns.
Some 4.3 million people immigrated to the EU from non-EU countries in 2023, according to figures from EU statistics agency Eurostat.
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