The European Union's border-protection agency, Frontex, began its official deployment in North Macedonia on April 20, extending its operations outside the bloc to a fifth country. More than 100 border guards will assist national patrols along the country's southern border with Greece, where illegal smuggling activity has picked up after pandemic restrictions were eased last year. The agency already has operations in four other countries outside the EU, in Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, and Serbia, with some 300 officers already active in the Western Balkan region. To read the original article by AP, click here.
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