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Verbatim report of proceedings
Wednesday, 15 February 2017 - Strasbourg Revised edition

Reinforcement of checks against relevant databases at external borders (debate)
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  Ulrike Lunacek, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, people watching in the galleries, for me this revision of border checks is a very telling example of ad hoc legislation and of symbolic politics, because we haven’t had an impact assessment by the Commission. I know you weren’t there, Commissioner, when we started debating that, but this is something which the Commission hasn’t proven, it hasn’t given us any proof that this will really make us more secure. No impact assessment was carried out. Indeed, it might be [questioned] whether it’s really suitable for catching terrorists. It is already possible now to have non-systematic checks of EU citizens coming in and out, and what is done now is done without any [grounds for] suspicion. For me and for us as Greens this revision is not necessary and it is not proportionate, as others have already said.

Let me give you one example, because the problem is that Member States don’t feed all the information they have into the Schengen Information System. I can give you a very concrete example. One of the Brussels attackers, Salah Abdeslam, passed through my home country, Austria, from Budapest with some people he took up in Budapest at the train station there. He passed from there to Austria, and there was a police patrol controlling him; they had an alert, but they didn’t say it was because of terrorism. So the Austrian Police a couple of days later informed the Belgians. Well, that was too late and the problem is that the Belgian authorities didn’t [give any] inform[ation]. So we have to solve that first before we control each and every EU citizen coming in and out. This simply will not make Europe more secure.

 
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