Examples of using Internal border in English and their translations into Czech
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Is that a reason to reinstall internal border control?
The abolition of internal border controls is an enormous success of European integration.
It is the responsibility of the Council to carry out the Schengen evaluations and, based on these evaluations,the Council will decide on the lifting of internal border controls.
The abolition of internal border control is particularly important for the entire European Union and each Member State individually.
I regard the introduction of free movement within the territory of the EU and the waiver of internal border controls as among the most important achievements of the European Union.
The abolition of internal border controls in countries belonging to this zone is a really significant change, with both a practical and a psychological dimension.
Since the deplorable SchengenAgreement was first implemented, the lifting of internal border controls has led to an explosion in organised crime and all forms of trafficking.
The ending of internal border controls requires complete security and also trust between the various parties in relation to their ability to carry out the necessary measures.
Therefore, the Commission is convinced that only a coordinated and Community-based process is adequate as opposed to unilateral initiatives by Member States to re-introduce internal border controls.
Secondly, on mutual trust:the abolition of internal border controls requires a high level of mutual trust between the Member States.
Member of the Commission.- Mr President, I am quite confident that Bulgaria andRomania will do their utmost to reach the target date for lifting the internal border controls in March 2011.
The decision to lift internal border controls with Romania and Bulgaria must not only be based on the technical evaluation but also on this trust, and unfortunately, that trust is not there today.
FR Madam President, I wonder if the demagogues of Rome andParis and their cohorts here in the European Parliament realise what their request to reinstate internal border controls actually implies.
Schengen enabled the abolition of internal border checks between signatory states and the creation of a single external border where border checks on entry to the Schengen area are carried out.
So it is important to have harmonious implementation and promotion of cooperation in border areas,both in respect of internal border areas but above all of areas along the European Union's external borders. .
The Council's proposal has a bearing on the second part of the mandate given to the Schengen Evaluation Working Group,which is to confirm that the acquis communautaire is being correctly applied following the lifting of internal border controls.
The Communication of 4 May not only mentions the reinstatement of internal border controls, it also addresses many other topics, such as the fight against human trafficking, legal immigration, resettlement of refugees, asylum and so on.
The proposals outlined in the Commission Communication of 4 May, including,in particular, a planned extension of the'exceptional circumstances' under which internal border controls may be restored, leave me somewhat perplexed.
Formerly, internal border checks were obviously carried out, but the reason for these at the time was the holding of certain events, like sporting events, the European Football Championship, world championships, or certain summit conferences.
I therefore voted in favour of Mr Coelho's report on verifying the necessary conditions for the application of the Schengen acquis,which is a prerequisite for the abolition of internal border controls with Bulgaria and Romania.
The answer to the pressure of migration is not the reintroduction of internal border control, but the acceleration of the ongoing negotiations for the purpose of adopting the refugee package, the common European migration policy and the Schengen evaluation system as soon as possible.
That is what has been happening and, in my opinion, it has been disastrous not only for Schengen but also for the European Union andits image because the reintroduction of internal border checks contradicts the whole essence of the Union and the basic principles of the Treaty.
This means that the removal of internal border controls requires a high level of mutual trust between Members States regarding the existence of effective external border controls because the security of the Schengen area depends on how rigorously and effectively each Member State controls its external borders. .
In the face of this challenge which, let us not forget,is principally a product of the Schengen Agreements- which abolished the controls at the internal border of the Member States- the Union's response has been to create a European external border control agency: Frontex.
Article 4(2) of the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union states that verification, in accordance with evaluation procedures,that the necessary conditions for the application of the Schengen acquis have been met by the new Member States is an essential requirement for the Council to decide to abolish internal border controls with those States.
There is a great deal of dissatisfaction among our electorate, the citizens of Europe, about the way in which the EU deals with these issues:the lack of internal border controls, the severely deficient external border controls, the utterly inadequate control of immigration and the spectre that is lying in wait for us in just under a year's time with regard to whether the Commission will give its approval for Bulgaria and Romania to also join Schengen.
At the same time, I agree that a harmonisation of principles at the Community level will contribute not only towards guaranteeing security of supply, butalso towards the stabilisation of an internal market where internal border controls have been removed and towards protecting animals entering the Community.
This means that additional measures need to be adopted because, as we know,the abolition of internal border controls requires a high level of mutual trust between Member States and also the existence of effective controls on external borders, since the security of the Schengen area depends on the rigour and efficiency with which each Member State carries out its external border checks.
Member States, of course,shall be involved to maintain mutual trust among each other on their capacity to apply all accompanying measures allowing for the lifting of internal border control, in particular, in the field of external borders, visa and police cooperation.
Madam President, like others I think that Commissioner Malmström is doing a very good job, but I also feel, in view of President Barroso's robust defence of Schengen free movement today,that I do not really understand how the notion could possibly have taken hold that the Commission's proposed EU-level mechanism is going to make it easier to reintroduce internal border controls.