EU plans fully-fledged external border force

EU Observer ^ | 12/11/2015, 09:29 | Eszter Zalan

[Olog-hai]

The European Union is considering a plan to introduce a permanent external border control force that could be deployed if it deems that a member state is in need of help to police its frontiers even without the EU country's consent, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (11 December).

The migration crisis has exposed the bloc's leaky external border control, and the Paris attacks, where two suspects entered the EU posing as refugees, added to the anxieties about external border checks.

There have been repeated calls by EU leaders to step up efforts to police external borders as almost a million people looking for refuge enter the bloc, according to figures by the UN's refugee agency.

However, handing over a core sovereign power from member states to the EU, with the commission, the bloc's executive, deciding to deploy the new border force, might be a tough sell. ...

[ichabod1]

Well, that’s a sneaky way to get an EU military and carte blanche to use it against member states.

[Fightin Whitey]

if it deems that a member state is in need of help to police its frontiers even without the EU country's consent

What could go wrong?.

[BitWielder1]

Good sentiment but overreaching, costly and sure to be ineffective because of the politics.
Come to think of it, that describes almost everything EU does.

[ClearCase_guy]

If an EU member nation’s sovereignty is in danger, the EU will help them out by reducing their sovereignty . Great.

[Olog-hai]

That’s always been the plan.