{"id":115480,"date":"2026-06-24T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/115480\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:50:08","slug":"frontex-critics-blocked-from-saving-lives-at-sea-meeting-in-brussels-lawyers-say-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/115480\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontex critics blocked from \u2018Saving Lives at Sea\u2019 meeting in Brussels, lawyers say \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawyers suing Frontex say they have been denied access to speak at a closed-door event in Brussels jointly organised by the Warsaw-based EU border police agency and the UN human rights office.<\/p>\n

The event, titled \u201cSaving Lives at Sea,\u201d will take place in Brussels on Thursday (25 June).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Frontex who blocked our participation. The high commissioner was uncomfortable of the whole situation, so that\u2019s where things stand,\u201d said Iftach Cohen, a lawyer at Front-lex<\/a>, a Dutch-based civil society organisation.<\/p>\n

Front-lex took Frontex to the EU court in Luxembourg over allegations that the agency helped the Libyan coast guard intercept and return people in the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n

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In a separate but closely-linked case, the court in December also handed the lawyers a rare win<\/a> by saying Frontex cannot claim ignorance or refuse to disclose its exclusive data, fundamentally shifting the power balance in litigation.<\/p>\n

The reasoning could entail a significant shift when it comes to holding the EU border agency to account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers suing Frontex say they have been denied access to speak at a closed-door event in Brussels jointly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[5754,211,210,37869,57658,57656,37867,57657,37868],"class_list":["post-115480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-typedefinedterm","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-identifier23","tag-identifier4576","tag-namefrontex","tag-namemigration","tag-termcodefrontex","tag-termcodemigration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116805646793932809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}