Report rejects EU border guards proposal

Closer co-operation between member states is needed to protect the European Union’s expanding external borders – but setting up a European Border Guard is not the answer, according to a British House of Lords report published today.

Baroness Harris of Richmond, who chaired the inquiry, said: “Protecting the EU’s borders is an essential task, but that’s best done by national border control authorities, not by a centrally controlled European Border Guard as proposed by the Commission.”