Denmark increases support for Frontex in 2026

Denmark has announced an expansion to the controversial anti-irregular migration project. It will deploy more planes and boats.

And still they keep coming – refugees picked up during Frontex Operation Triton (photo: Irish Defence Force)

Denmark has announced an expansion of its contribution to Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, in response to ongoing migration pressures at the EU’s external borders.With irregular migration on the rise—particularly from Belarus and Russia, where authorities have been accused of using migrants as a tool to destabilize the EU—the Danish government has […]


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