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"I voted against the full application of the Schengen measures in Romania and Bulgaria. Notwithstanding the generally positive judgment on the progress made by these two Member States in terms of security, the report itself admits that numerous technical and administrative shortcomings were detected in the bodies tasked with ensuring the border security of both States and, in particular, in the bodies tasked with checking and monitoring sea and land borders. Secondly, the report acknowledges that if the two countries were included in the Schengen area, their geographical position next to the Turkish border would create two new routes for illegal migrants who currently only head for Greece, which, at this precise moment, is the only Schengen State in the Balkan peninsula.
The admission of Romania and Bulgaria would therefore considerably increase the size of the EU’s south-eastern Achilles heel and cause a threefold increase in the pressure it currently faces. The draft resolution therefore flies directly in the face of the citizen’s need for protection – which
has always put at the core of its programme – and I cannot support it."@en1
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