Frontex, the EU’s border management agency, is responsible for the implementation of the deal, but has less than one tenth of the 2,300 officers that it needs to do the job. The agency relies on the EU’s 28 member states to provide translators and other officials to process asylum seekers, but these have not been forthcoming, even as the continent faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II. Monday morning we’ll have some idea how things are going.
ABC’s Tom Rivers joined us from London.