Frontex reform in the context of the migration crisis: explaining the failure to upgrade the agency's mandate
Date
2018
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Tartu Ülikool
Abstract
The Migration crisis has brought significant attention to Frontex inability to tackle the
crisis and the necessity to reform the agency had a common understanding between EU
actors. However, after the reform process, agencies mandate was not upgraded. This
master thesis states that EU member states are those who are not willing to upgrade
Frontex mandate and it aims to find the main factors that influenced the failure to
upgrade its mandate.
To answer the research question, supranationalism, intergovernmentalism, EU agency
theory and principal -agent framework was used.With process tracing method used, the
document analysis and national member states positions were analyzed in order to see
what interests all of the actors involved in decision making process had.
The main argument was approved as member states were those who were not willing to
delegate more power to the Frontex.
Keywords: EU specialized agencies, European integration, power delegation, Frontex,
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