area without internal borders

Citizens must be able to move freely and to make full use of their rights in this area without internal borders.

In an area without internal borders, we also need to have a joint approach to illegal immigration.

An area without internal borders must also be a market without privileges.

Now, however, all Member States need to agree on their effective participation in the area without internal borders.

An area without internal borders will not work if there is no responsibility for managing those borders.

Illegal immigration is a problem for all of us in an area without internal borders, such as the Schengen area.

A long-stay visa should have the same impact on a person's movement within the Schengen area without internal borders as a residence permit.

An area without internal borders cannot function without shared responsibility and solidarity in managing its external borders.

Our guiding principle must be that the European Union, as an area without internal borders, must find a common and effective way of managing its external borders.

In an area without internal borders, such as our Schengen area, coordination and information-sharing among the various national immigration policies of the 25 Member States are crucial.

There are problems and challenges that are clearly beyond the scope of individual Member States and that call for a common approach, this being especially obvious, as already said, in an area without internal borders.

A fragmented and incoherent approach cannot be allowed in a common area without internal borders, because any immigration action or policy implemented by one Member State necessarily has consequences for all the other Member States.

The shared objective of the fifteen Member States to create a European Union which is ever more closely bound, particularly comprising an area without internal borders, could not be achieved in full without a single currency.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the operation of the internal market is only guaranteed if, in an area without internal borders, appropriate and sensible measures are put in place and consumer safety is safeguarded.

You are aware that evaluation on a case-by-case basis will be necessary, but we are striving to help all the new Member States to be in a position by then to join a European area without internal borders.

Yet the task that lies before is plain for all to see. That task is to transform an economic community, an area without internal borders, into a union of nations, a political union, like it says in the Maastricht Treaty.

This would restore the basic philosophy underlying the creation of an area without internal borders, namely that the person can travel around in the Schengen area for short stays with the documents based on which he or she is legally present in a Member State.

Such a measure directly helps to include and raise the awareness of the citizens of the Union in the creation of an area without internal borders and to form and establish a feeling of European identity, while contributing indirectly to n increase in road traffic safety.