EU and its agencies provide administrative and material support
The EU and its agencies provide administrative and material support in terms of
manpower and equipment for the establishment and operation of hotspots, for
example, and for border management.
At the hotspots and at other places on
land and at sea, staff from the agencies, such as the European Border and
Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) or the European Asylum Support Office (EASO),
cooperate with local authorities to identify and to register new arrivals and to
take fingerprints and to save lives. At present, nearly 2,000 people work for the
EU agencies in the countries at the external borders, of whom about 600 in Italy
and about 1,100 in Greece.
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