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- EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner unveiled a plan to tighten external border controls.
- The plan creates a standing Frontex corps for immediate deployment across member states.
- It adds early-warning alerts, a crackdown on smugglers and aid to migrants’ origin countries.
- Illegal border crossings fell to their lowest level since 2021 despite a July breach of over 72,000 migrants into Ceuta.
