Dobrindt wants to strengthen Frontex and speed up migrant…

Dobrindt wants to strengthen Frontex and speed up migrant returns

27.09.2026 12:28 HotInfo

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has proposed a significant expansion of the powers of the European agency Frontex. At a meeting with interior ministers from several European countries in Munich, he stated that the agency should play a bigger role in crisis situations and in returns of migrants. Deutschlandfunk ↗

Dobrindt is also responding to the recent mass arrival of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. For similar cases, he proposes a crisis mechanism that would allow for accelerated deportation proceedings. According to his idea, emergency situations at the European Union's external borders would be resolved more quickly and in a more coordinated manner. Die Zeit ↗

Part of the plans is also the creation of several return centers, known as "return hubs." According to the proposals, Europe's external borders should be protected more strictly, Frontex should be deployed more quickly, and in justified cases migrants should be stopped even before reaching Europe. Welt ↗

Other European interior ministers also took part in the Munich talks, including British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Dobrindt spoke of the need for a new European arrangement in the area of migration and of joint impulses for changing the current policy. Welt ↗

The proposals are to be the subject of further negotiations between member states and European institutions. Their adoption would require agreement on the scope of Frontex's powers as well as on the rules for accelerated returns.

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