Sunday, May 1, 2011

Barroso considered feasible to restore the EU's internal borders

The European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, considered feasible restoration of the internal borders of the EU, clearly defined and limited conditions, as a means to strengthen the functioning of the Treaty of Scgen. Barroso's opinion responds to the claim presented to him by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in light of the arrival of more than 20,000 Tunisians in Italy.

The Commission launched on Wednesday with concrete measures on immigration policy at the Twenty-seven countries on the southern shores of the Mediterranean. Sarkozy and Berlusconi made a pact at their summit on Tuesday in Rome the letter sent to President Barroso and the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, which claimed to "examine the possibility of temporarily reintroducing border control inside in case of difficulties exceptional management of the common external borders.

" Barroso will now answer your letter will be an important contribution to the debate of European leaders in the European Council in late June and will forward their ideas will be taken into account in developing the new Community strategy on migration with the neighbors Southerners to present on Wednesday.

"The temporary restoration of the borders is a possibility among others, provided they are subject to specific and clearly defined criteria, could be one way of strengthening governance Scgen agreement," he writes Barroso. The chairman of the Committee anticipates that the new strategy will avoid the temptation of giving priority to security, thereby betraying the values of the European project, without being so lax as to fuel fears about the safety of European public opinion.

In response to these warnings, the French police have conducted raids last week in the Paris region and southeast of the country in search of Tunisians arrived in Italy without papers or permission to reside in France, according to humanitarian organizations. Police operations have resulted in hundreds of detainees and returnees.

"Interventions and police custody in places of assembly and distribution of food to these people are intolerable cynicism," according to the association in a statement. It called on the authorities, "a response that respects the humanity and dignity, without ideological and electoral instrumentalize the situation of persons in a state of extreme hardship."

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