BORDER MANAGEMENT Advocates request Frontex Director to suspend operations in the Aegean Front-LEX and the Legal Centre Lesvos sent a Communication to the Executive Director of Frontex on 15 February, requesting the agency to immediately suspend or terminate operations in the Aegean in view of serious and persistent human rights violations. The European Border and Coast Guard Regulation states that the Executive Director is obliged to withdraw the “financing for any activity by the Agency, or suspend or terminate any activity by the Agency [...] if he or she considers that there are violations of fundamental rights”. According to Article 265 of the EU treaty, Frontex has to define its position within two months. If it fails to do so, a legality review action may be brought before the EU Court of Justice. UN expert calls EU to legislate on minimum income inclusive of undocumented migrants After visiting the EU institutions in January, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Olivier De Schutter called on the EU countries to prioritise the fight against poverty, after the EU failed to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020. He also called on the EU to adopt a framework directive setting common standards on minimum income schemes, and recommended that they should cover undocumented migrants too.