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We are striving to ensure that there is truly free movement of persons within Europe. As a result, we consider that the ‘Schengen area’ (which does not include all EU countries and much less so all European countries), despite removing barriers between the participating countries, is actually reinforcing those barriers with other countries (particularly countries with which Portugal has historic links).
Having said this, we cannot ignore the fact that, using the excuse of ‘freedom of movement’, an information system and databases are being set up which go well beyond this objective, making these into one of the central supporting instruments (or ‘backbone’) of the security offensive (led by the EU) and the progressive ‘Communitisation’ of justice and home affairs, areas which are at the heart of Member State sovereignty.
In other words, we cannot agree to what the Council Presidency is proposing: first set up the system and then define its objectives. This is particularly important because the objectives have been defined for a long time (introduction of the European arrest warrant and biometric data, access by new entities, including data-sharing with third countries, and so on).
As we have said previously, these measures threaten the protection of citizens’ rights, freedoms and guarantees."@en1
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