EU Borders: "LEAK" - EU’s five-year plan doubles down on protecting borders - by Sam Morgan

EU Border Controls
 Need To Be Tightened

EU leaders want to focus on migration and protection of external borders, or the “integrity of our physical space”, over the next five years, according to a draft of the so-called strategic agenda obtained by EURACTIV. Economy and climate action rank second and third.

In the draft strategy for 2019-2024, meant to guide the work of the EU institutions, national leaders prioritize migration policy over other areas, while strengthening the economy, fighting climate change and taking Europe global also feature.

In the top-billed area of “Protecting citizens and freedoms”, the agenda insists that effective border controls are “an absolute prerequisite” for maintaining rule and order, and adds that other EU policies rely on it.

“First and foremost we must ensure the integrity of our physical space. We need to know and be the ones to decide who sets foot on EU territory,” it reads.

The draft plan explains that the bloc will maintain and expand its links with the countries immigrants come from and travel through, which would include Libya and Turkey.

The Leaders also insist that they are “determined to find a way through on internal migration and asylum policy”.

A reform of the migration-focused Dublin Regulation is currently languishing in the Council and late last year, the current European Commission all but gave up on finalizing its proposed update before the end of its mandate in October.

From an Euractive  report

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