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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-07-06
CONTENTS
[01] EU-Turkey deal on migration must be respected, say Greek and German
ministers
[02] European Parliament to discuss whether to replace FRONTEX with
new agency
[01] EU-Turkey deal on migration must be respected, say Greek and German
ministers
The EU-Turkey deal on migration must be respected and the relocation
and resettlement procedure must be intensified, Alternate Minister for
Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas and German Interior Minister Thomas de
Maizière agreed on, during a meeting in Berlin, according to a German
Interior ministry press release on Tuesday.
The ministry said Mouzalas thanked the German government for the
assistance offered to Greece and presented the current situation in
the country, saying the number of asylum applications and appeals will
increase significantly. "The appeal committees will start work next week,
under a new composition. This will increase the number of final rulings,"
he said.
[02] European Parliament to discuss whether to replace FRONTEX with
new agency
The full revision of the EU border agency FRONTEX's mandate and its
renaming to European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) to allow for a better
and faster safeguarding the EU's external borders was discussed in the
session of the European Parliament's plenary on Tuesday.
"This is a great day today; after six months we've reached our goal,"
Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said in his address, adding
that the proposed legislation has a symbolic and legal dimension.
"We recognise in practice that our European external borders are common
European borders, for which we all share the responsibility. We provide
our Agency with a strengthened legal basis and enhanced resources to
perform more effectively, particularly when the overall functioning of
the Schengen area is at risk," he noted.
Unlike FRONTEX, which is based on a voluntary and often inadequate
assistance from the member-states, the new Agency establishes a border
guard corps, a reserve of 1,500 rapid reaction units which will have to
be made available by member-states without exception.
Another difference is that the Agency will deploy liaison officers
who will closely monitor the management of the external borders and
facilitate the cooperation between member-states. These officers will
be deployed to all countries with external land or sea borders.
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