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"Schengen cooperation has enabled people to travel more freely in the Member States without having to show their passports at the internal borders. Obviously, such a reform requires more effective patrolling of the shared external borders. In that context, it is of the utmost importance that present and future Member States cooperate closely in order to guarantee border controls of the same standard along the whole of the external border, especially through training and joint guidelines.
We are, however, doubtful about the idea of an EU-financed Corps of Border Guards. The national police forces’ monopoly on crime fighting and border patrols within the territories of the Member States is fundamental and should be retained. Police from other countries should not have the power to act in other Member States except under very special circumstances, as is also stated in the Schengen Convention. As far as possible, these rules should also apply to border controls.
Individual Member States’ provisions and traditions when it comes to police work, especially procedures relating to ID checks and arrests, differ from one another in many respects. With a joint Corps of Border Guards, there might be a danger of these provisions’ not being fully respected. Financial aid for the border authorities of relevant Member States should instead make it possible to meet the increased need for personnel able to ensure effective patrols of the EU’s external border."@en1
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