17 December 2025 – On December 18th, International Migrants Day, people in six EU countries will take action against the growing training infrastructure of EU border guard agency Frontex. This comes in response to an International Action Day called for by the Abolish Frontex network, consisting of more than 130 groups and organisations. The actions that are planned in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Poland include demonstrations, public presentations and workshops.

With the expansion of Frontex’s mandate, budget and organisation, especially since 2015, the agency’s training infrastructure has also gradually grown. Now Frontex has announced its first dedicated Training Center in Warsaw, set to open in October 2026. This center will be an exclusive factory for border police, intending to train over 200 officers per year and aims to rapidly expand its reach to other EU member states.

This new center, alongside its existing “Partnership Academies“ are militarized training grounds in order to standardize and normalize inhumane detention, deportation, and denial of safety to millions of people on the move. This is not about security; it’s about increasing the capacity for cruelty.

Kim, Abolish Frontex spokesperson, says: “Frontex training centers are normalizing exclusion and control. We will not stand by as Frontex recruits and trains border guards to inflict violence against people on the move! Money invested in Frontex infrastructure means more pushbacks, more deaths at sea and more suffering at EU borders.”

The Abolish Frontex network was launched in June 2021 to connect and strengthen protests against the EU’s deadly border regime. Over 130 organisations and groups in EU countries and beyond have joined  the informal network that strives for freedom of movement for everyone.

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17 November 2025 – With the expansion of Frontex’s mandate, budget and organisation, especially since 2015, the agency’s training infrastructure has also gradually grown. It now includes a plethora of trainings, courses, workshops and exercises for Frontex personnel as well as employees of border authorities of EU member states and, in some cases, third countries in- and outside Europe. Many of these activities take place on ad hoc locations, such as EU external border crossing points (including airports), or online. The new briefing ‘Frontex’s training infrastructure’ [pdf] by the Abolish Frontex Research Group lists permanent Frontex training locations, for its Standing Border Guard Corps trainings, its Partnership Academies network and its Joint Master’s programme.

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Avec l’élargissement du mandat, du budget et de l’organisation de Frontex, particulièrement depuis 2015, l’infrastructure de formation de l’agence s’est également développée progressivement. Elle comprend désormais une multitude de formations, de cours, d’ateliers et d’exercices destinés au personnel de Frontex ainsi qu’aux employés des autorités frontalières des États membres de l’UE et, dans certains cas, de pays tiers en Europe ou en dehors. Bon nombre de ces activités se déroulent dans des lieux ad hoc, tels que les points de passage des frontières extérieures de l’UE (y compris les aéroports), ou en ligne. Cette note d’information ‘Infrastructure de formation Frontex’ répertorie les lieux de formation permanents de Frontex, pour ses formations du corps permanent de garde-frontières, son réseau d’académies de partenariat et son programme de master commun.

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28 October 2025 – On December 18th, International Migrants Day, we are calling for decentralised actions against the escalating militarisation of Europe’s border regime  We must resist the increasing capacity for deadly policing. Resistance starts with dismantling Frontex’s training infrastructure.

Frontex is pouring millions of euros into its first dedicated Training Center in Warsaw, set to open in October 2026. This center will be an exclusive factory for border police, intending to train over 200 officers per year and aims to rapidly expand its reach to other EU member states. This new center, alongside its existing “Partnership Academies“, is nothing less than a militarized training ground to standardize and normalize inhumane detention, deportation, and denial of safety to millions of people on the move. This is not about security; it’s about increasing the capacity for cruelty. Read more about Frontex’s training infrastructure in this briefing.

On December 18th, we call on you to organize decentralized actions to resist this deadly regime and its training apparatus.

From across Europe and North Africa, we will send an undeniable message: We will not stand by as Frontex recruits and trains border guards to inflict violence against people on the move!

GET ORGANIZED in your respective cities as we call to #AbolishFrontexAcademy! Continue reading “On December 18th: Stop the Violence: Rise Up Against Frontex’s Training for Border Brutality!”

16 September 2025 – We call for all groups to unite against the planned Frontex training centre, the first of its kind dedicated to training European border police. Get in touch: info[a]abolishfrontex.org with subject #AbolishFrontexAcademy.

August 2025 – This is a call to action for individuals and groups around fortress Europe. f.Lotta is a scream of protest from civil society, a call to reject the normalization of border violence and its system. Join us!

Our contact:
f_lotta@inventati.org

With or without a boat, at sea and on land: there are many ways to become part of the movement. Some ideas:

1. Take your boat, that of our friend, or steal a rich yatch and join us!
The more boats we are, the more noise we will make! If you have friends with boats that could be interested in joining f.Lotta, or friends of friends, talk to them about the protest, put us in touch!

Read the whole call to action on the website of f.Lotta, and sign the public statement of support!

In several countries actions and other activities were organised on and around World Refugee Day, 20 June 2025, following the call for actions to ‘Abolish Frontex and stop the expansion of Fortress Europe‘. A short impressium:

Belgium

The Belgian Abolish Frontex group organised a walk without borders in the European quarter in Brussels, on the theme of ’Who benefits from crime? An investigation led by artists who brilliantly rose to the challenge while deciphering the inner workings of the militarisation of borders and its victims.

“The constant anti-migration measures adopted by the European institutions, under the insistent fallacious pretext of ‘security’ measures, are trying to suffocate us in order to normalise and pretend that rampant militarisation is essential. But who is behind all these misleading declarations? It’s obvious that, as always, there are winners behind the speeches that insist on the absolute need for defense and this arms race.

Continue reading “Abolish Frontex and Stop the Expansion of Fortress Europe – Call for 20 June (World Refugee Day) international action days”