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Thursday, 15 February 2007

What’s new? Schengen Agreements were introduced long ago to facilitate people’s movements in Europe, but now the problem of borders is concerning a more thorny matter: today (February 15th), EU justice and interior ministers have met to deal with a highly controversial issue about an overhaul of data-sharing rules and environmental crimes.

The focus point will be about the so-called transfer of prisoners proposal, which would allow a sentenced person to serve their sentence in their home country or country of residence.

The proposal should have been adopted last December but its application was postponed because of the objections of some Sate-members of the EU, in particular Poland.

According to the program set up by Germany -the current presidency of the EU- the application of the above proposal would bring about the application of Schengen Agreements to EU (single states’) law-books, “a move that would translate into the sharing of personal information such as DNA, national police operating across borders and even air marshals boarding foreign planes”, the EU observer reported .

The purpose is to limit illegal immigration from non-European countries and to simplify legal procedures and investigations across the EU.

Seven countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Spain) already signed up a pact of collaboration and today they will face the reluctance of other members of the European Parliament who are seriously worried about such a transposition of the so-called Prüm Treaty.

Whereas Poland is basically concerned by the economical consequences of the Treaty, the UK and Ireland are completely distrustful about it, since they don’t consider “foreign police officers operating on their domestic soil and armed air marshals boarding their planes” as a good idea.

What about the other countries?

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