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Various principles and justifications – all of which are valid – can be put forward in support of maximum cooperation in monitoring, and taking action to protect, our external borders.
The EU as a whole is also defined by its borders. In this context, it is clear that the Union’s external borders are a territory under the exclusive sovereignty of the Member States, but also territories whose integrity, monitoring and protection is in everyone’s interests, given that problems that arise on those borders tend to have ramifications for the other Member States. First and foremost, one thinks of illegal immigration. Yet there is also illegal trafficking and – on a rather different tack but an issue for which the rationale still holds – environmental threats.
It is entirely right and extremely important that we share the disproportionate burden carried by the Member States that, due to geographical reasons, have the most vulnerable external borders. Quite apart from being an expression of solidarity among EU Member States, cooperation of this nature arises above all from the need to make border protection as effective as possible.
The idea of defending those borders should not be confused with that of protectionism or isolationism; it is merely a matter of observing the rules."@en1
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