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We are very much in favour of greater cooperation between States for the better control of external borders and of the creation of a technical agency to encourage such cooperation. The von Boetticher report on the subject calls for a qualified judgment, however.
On the one hand, it tries to limit the agency’s tasks to technical cooperation and says that ‘the management of national borders should remain a sovereign Member State responsibility’, which is excellent. On the other hand, however, it sets the new system not in an intergovernmental framework but in a Community one, guided by the Commission and under the political control of the European Parliament, thus opening the way to extensions of supranational competences in the future.
It must in fact be read in parallel with the draft European Constitution, which shows the mentality that prevails in Brussels: Article 3(166) charges the Union with ‘the gradual introduction of an integrated management system for external borders’, that is a supranational system with a European border police. Although the von Boetticher report limits the agency’s tasks for the time being, it cannot therefore give us any reassurance. It appears to be looking to extend Community powers, which is inappropriate here."@en1
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