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I would first of all like to welcome the exercise carried out by the Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) at Romania’s eastern border at the end of October this year, coordinated by the European agency FRONTEX. This type of exercise, the third of its kind so far, has demonstrated the important role which FRONTEX plays in offering support to the Member States which provide the European Union's external border and therefore require greater technical and operational assistance.
I also welcome the agreement signed at the start of this month by FRONTEX and the Georgian border police, which marks an important step towards ensuring border security and combating illegal immigration. The long-term strategy proposed by the European Commission for managing borders is welcome in these times when Member States with southern external borders are faced with major problems caused by illegal immigration. This strategy needs to be supplemented by the efforts of neighbouring countries in reinforcing the security of their own borders. As a result, the action plans included as part of the European Neighbourhood Policy need to promote projects and financial aid aimed at making the borders of third countries more secure.
As regards the assessment by Parliament of the strategy package for the long-term management of the EU’s borders, I regret that the discussion of the FRONTEX and EUROSUR reports did not coincide with the discussion of the Commission’s proposals on the entry/exit system, the travel registration programme and the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA) so that we could have an overall vision of how the management of the European Union’s eastern borders will evolve in the future."@en1
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