The European Union has struck a deal with FYROM to deploy border guards at the south border of the Balkan country to curb migration. European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and Oliver Spasovski, Minister of Interior of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, signed a status agreement that will allow teams from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency to be deployed in FYROM, the EU commission said in a statement on July 18th.
Once in force, the agreement will allow the Agency to carry out joint operations with and within the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, especially in the event of sudden migratory challenges.
Once the agreement enters into force, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency will be able to carry out operational activities and deploy teams in the regions of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia that border the EU, in agreement with both the authorities of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the authorities of the bordering EU Member States.
The Commission has committed to further strengthening the European Border and Coast Guard Agency’s role in protecting the EU’s borders, including closer cooperation with the EU’s neighbours. Status agreements like the one initialled today with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will reinforce the Agency’s ability to act in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood, helping to manage irregular migration better and further enhancing security at the EU’s external borders.
Closer cooperation between the Agency and Western Balkan partners is also a core element of the Commission’s strategy for ‘A credible enlargement perspective for and enhanced EU engagement with the Western Balkans’, which highlights the Western Balkans’ European future and calls for enhanced strategic and operational cooperation on migration and border management.
Once the agreement enters into force, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency will be able to carry out operational activities and deploy teams in the regions of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia that border the EU, in agreement with both the authorities of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the authorities of the bordering EU Member States, the EC statement said.
PS why should they send coast guard to FYROM that has no access to the sea? Oh, it’s just a usual EU agreement to show it takes actions against the Migration Crisis that has flawed.
Coast guard? oh, just words.
This means Greece will effectively be forced to work against our own interests to contain all migrants inside Greece.