nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/6b353778a623166e DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250730s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/6b353778a623166e doi eng 342 23 Salzano, Laura Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-0798-7437 “We Were Just Cooperating!” - The Case for Frontex’ Fundamental Rights Obligations Salzano, Laura Verfassungsblog 2025-07-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On June 12th 2025, Advocate General (AG) Ćapeta delivered her Opinion in Case WS v Frontex (C-746/23 P), concerning Frontex’ responsibility for violations of fundamental rights in joint return operations (JROs). The AG first exposes serious logical and legal flaws in the General Court’s approach before explaining why Frontex can be held directly accountable for fundamental rights violations when acting in cooperation with Member States; a question that was central to the applicants’ case but one that the General Court failed to address entirely. CC BY-SA 4.0 European Charter of Fundamental Rights External Border Control Frontex Joint Return Operations pushbacks Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/we-were-just-cooperating/ raw object