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On December 18th: Stop the Violence: Rise Up Against Frontex’s Training for Border Brutality!

[En Français ci-dessous – En español abajo – Po polsku poniżej]

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!

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Student protest prevents Frontex recruiting event at University of Amsterdam

5 December 2025 – On Wednesday, December 3rd a group of fifty concerned students and allies on behalf of Abolish Frontex NL disrupted a networking event organized by Sefa (the University of Amsterdam study association for Economics and Business Students) during their ‘career week’ on behalf of Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency. The Career Week is the largest on-campus career event at the UvA and Frontex was one of the three main partners advertized. This event followed a ‘speed-dating’ event held earlier in the day. Both events held the goal of connecting Sefa affiliated students with potential job opportunities at Frontex.

The disruption achieved its aims: to stop the networking event from taking place, ensure that Frontex did not return to campus on Thursday, December 4th for a scheduled appearance at a career fair, and inform the university community of Frontex’s policies and execution of murderous border violences. To do so, students and allies held two parallel events: a disruption at the networking event, and a informational event in the main hall of the building.

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Frontex’s training infrastructure

[En Français ci-dessous]

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.

[En Français]

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.

14 TO 18 OCTOBER IN ROME: DAYS OF ACTION WITH ‘STAGE OF SURVIVORS’ AGAINST THE DEAL BETWEEN ITALY AND LIBYA

No deal for crimes against humanity. Stop the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya.

Join the mobilization in Rome:

Action days from 14-17 October

Big demonstration with a stage of survivors 18 October

A new coalition calls for common protests in October in Rome. Led by the self-organisation Refugees in Libya, numerous human rights organizations, civil fleet actors, lawyers, researchers, and representatives from the Catholic Church, we invite to a series of public events culminating in a strong demonstration on Saturday, 18th of October at 14:00 CEST at Piazza Vidoni.

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Abolish Frontex Academy!

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.

Call to action: f.Lotta – a massive occupation of the central Med

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!

Abolish Frontex activities at World Refugee Day

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.

Our question : who profits from this crime?

An investigation was carried out with the help of renowned inspectors and the exceptional presence of Oursoula Von der Linceuil, diplomats, lobbyists, Carinas volunteers and the Frontex director. A meticulous investigation was carried out in the streets of Brussels to the sound of brass bands, accompanied by singers, music and dance.

With the participation of the artists Johara Belhmane, Kevin Lerat, Matthieu Thonon, Marie-Laure Vrancken and Raoul Les Mécaniques.

The ballade lasted 3.5 hours and ended in front of the European Parliament, where speeches allowed us to draw collective conclusions. Our way, to show our support for the people who try to reach Fortress Europe.”

Germany

In Berlin there was a poster action on the German financial contribution to Frontex (posters are available here) Website) and a critical bike tour about border profiteers in Berlin. In Aachen ‘Abolish Frontex’ was painted on the street for the visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. And in Bonn there was an Abolish Frontex picnic against borders.

Italy

In Italy, with a press conference, an internal workshop and a launch event, Refugees in Libya and Alliance with Refugees in Libya started a new campaign ‘Stop Memorandum Italy-Libya‘ against the automatic renewal of the infamous memorandum on migration cooperation between the two countries. The campaign also includes the demand to ‘Stop Frontex sending coordinates of refugee boats to Libyan criminal militias’.

The Netherlands

In The Netherlands the action day coincided with the lead-up to the NATO Summit in The Hague, where NATO members agreed to drastic increases in military spending. There were several actions and other activities regarding this summit, including two workshops on border militarisation, Frontex and the role of NATO at the Countersummit and the NeeTo action camp.

The Madleen Declaration

20 June 2025 – Abolish Frontex co-signed the Madleen Declaration, put forward by the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, which ties together crises of border violence and refugee deaths at sea, extractivism and fossil fuel dependence, militarism, Big Tech and corporate power, the genocide in Palestine, and environmental destruction in the Mediterranean – and argues urgently for a transformative social, environmental and political alternative.

“In place of war and genocide, we demand a free Palestine.
In place of racialised and deadly borders and blockades we demand free movement.
In place of destructive and polluting rearmament programmes and aid budgets being torn apart, we demand wages and housing and humanity.In place of tech billionaires’ dreams of mass surveillance and control, we demand that humanity’s technological capabilities are harnessed towards increasing, not restricting our freedom.
In place of climate and environmental destruction and extraction we demand a just transition, the restoration of our natural world, and cheap clean energy for all.”

Read the complete declaration on the website of The Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy.

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

27 April 2025 – Abolish Frontex, a grassroots network of organisations and groups working to end the EU border regime, calls for actions on and around World Refugee Day (Friday, 20 June 2025). While the EU keeps expanding its border infrastructure and increases deportations with the growing involvement of Frontex, which is directly funded by the European Commission, the lives and rights of people on the move are under constant attack. We need to keep protesting and resisting.

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New dimension in border surveillance: Frontex wants to send millions in technology into the stratosphere

7 April 2025 – The EU border agency wants to close a “gap” between aircraft and satellites with high-flying platforms. Spain is already using the technology against migration over the Atlantic. A test flight over the Mediterranean will take place this summer.

Frontex wants to fly so-called High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) in the stratosphere in future, thereby closing an alleged gap between aircraft and satellites that are already used for border surveillance. In 2022, the EU had already launched a three-year research project for a total of €7 million to integrate the systems. This also looked at their suitability for border surveillance.

With the end of the project approaching, Frontex organised a so-called HAPS Industry Day at its headquarters in Warsaw on last Thursday. There, manufacturers were able to promote the possible use of their pseudo-satellites for migration defence and demonstrate their capabilities.

Read the complete article on the website of Matthias Monroy.