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The European Commission plans to significantly expand the powers of the EU border agency Frontex. EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner announced the proposal, saying Frontex should become the central EU actor in carrying out deportations and returns. The plan would give the agency a much larger role in EU migration enforcement, and is likely to fuel debate over border control and migrants' rights across Europe.

One day after Israel's Knesset elections, Professor José Brunner, a political scientist and historian of science and emeritus of the Cohn Institute at Tel Aviv University, is being interviewed about the vote and its implications. Brunner, an expert on law, politics and intellectual history, offers analysis of the election results and what they mean for Israel's political future.

The European Union is planning a substantial expansion of its border protection agency Frontex. According to a report in Süddeutsche Zeitung, the strengthened agency is intended to help member state governments in crisis situations and to speed up deportations across Europe. The plans are associated with EU Home Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner and touch on the ongoing political debate over asylum and migration policy in the bloc.

European Commissioner Magnus Brunner said that with the reforms the EU is implementing, Europe is 'taking back control' of migration flows toward the continent. The remarks, reported by Agenzia Nova, frame the bloc's migration policy overhaul as regaining manageability of arrivals. The statement is drawing attention amid ongoing debate over EU migration rules and border management.