The EU-yes to extended border control – Aftonbladet

Policy. the EUROPEAN commission says yes to an extension of the reintroduced border controls in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Austria.

Well, consider the interior minister Anders Ygeman (S), but waits with a vengeance if the government want to extend.

Commission gives a thumbs-up to that until further extend the controls in the further three months.

“We are working hard to return to a normal functioning of the Schengen zone as soon as possible and we have made great progress. But we are not there yet,” explains commission vice-president Frans Timmermans in a statement.

“Therefore, we propose to retain, for a strictly limited time, they coordinated and proportionate internal controls at certain Schengen-borders”, in turn, say the area of asylum and migrationskommissionären Dimitris Avramopoulos.

the Proposal comes after heavy pressure, particularly from Germany and Denmark to give the green light to an extension already. When the EU’s heads of state and government held a summit in Brussels last week, leaders agreed to call for an “adjustment” of the border in order to “reflect the need for” a clear address to the commission on member states not yet believe that it is possible to return to the normal mode.

– It is good that the commission has changed. We now have the freedom of action for our decision at the end of next week. But it is obvious that the commission set significantly higher requirements for the extension this time, ” says Anders Ygeman and adds that the government must now analyse what it means.

The formal decision is taken jointly by the EU member states, on the basis of the EU-the commission proposal.

The current border controls applies to the 12 november. In Sweden, however, the government has not yet made the decision if you want to extend the controls or not.

the FACTS

Several countries in the Schengen the cooperation has, by reason of the refugee crisis and reintroduction of temporary internal border controls. Until november 12, applies the controls in:

Austria – at the land border to Slovenia and Hungary

Germany – at the land border to Austria

Denmark – at the ports with the ferry service to Germany and the Danish-German land border

Sweden – at the ports in Polisregion the South and West, and the Öresund bridge

Norway – at the ports with ferry service to Denmark, Germany and Sweden

Source: EU-commission

Brussels, TT:correspondent