What European cooperation for clandestine immigration?

"The continual flow of African immigrants in the Canary Islands, as well as in Malta and Sicily, constitutes a brutal baptism by fire for the new European agency Frontex", notes Philippe Ricard, who attended the EU conference of foreign ministers on Saturday, September 2nd, in Lapeenranta, Finland. "The Frontex mission is to coordinate efforts of cooperation between the 25 Member states on the outer borders of the Union. Funding, however, has yet to be made available. ... For the time being, the agency will have to commit most of its manpower - 65 people - to the two missions carried out in the Mediterranean. ... Those in charge of Frontex regret that only a handful of State members - Italy, Portugal, Germany, Finland and France - responded to their appeals to come to aid Spanish authorities".

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