Opposition leader Simon Busuttil today welcomed by the European Commission on setting up EU Border and Coast Guards to strengthen the protection of the EU’s external borders.
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Designed to meet the new challenges and political realities faced by the EU, both as regards migration and internal security, the European Border and Coast Guard will be composed of a newly created European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the national authorities and coastguards responsible for border management. Countries farther north in Europe like Germany & Sweden – the preferred destinations of many migrants – are notably clever to have tighter controls alongside Greece’s twisting maritime border with Turkey to ease the flow of individuals, as is France. While leaders insist that asylum seekers should be registered and fingerprinted, they have baulked at the European Commission’s suggestions that a special EU guard should take up the task.
Before the start of the summit, Tusk said he was counting on the brinkmanship of Cameron to seek a breakthrough on the major issues.
“Securing Europe’s external borders is the best way to continue to benefit from the freedom of being part of the Schengen zone” Simon Busuttil said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she didn’t expect a decision during the Brussels meeting, but she hoped the leaders would edge closer to backing the border agency. However for some, the plan touches at the very heart of national id – a rustic’s right to select who or what can be deployed on its territory – & Greece, Italy, Croatia & Hungary are cautious of it. The proposal is just the beginning of a probably long & divisive legislative process.
The brand new agency would have a standing reserve force of at the very least 1,500 border guards in that might be sent to European Union border crossings within three days, slightly than relying on time-consuming calls to nations for volunteers throughout emergencies.
The plans for a European Border and Coast Guard would almost treble EU spending on frontier defence, and replace Frontex, the EU agency with limited powers to intervene in crises.
Many of those feeling conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa have arrived via the Greek islands, via Turkey, and they are still pouring into Greece in their thousands daily.
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Almost one million refugees and migrants, most from the Syrian war, have arrived in Europe this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
