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Agnė Kuksaitė

Abstract

Lithuanian integration processes being under way cause intensive correction of social, economic, political phenomena and predetermine changes in the field of border security. Shengen acquis rules are overviewed and analyzed which regulate the control for security of internal borders, as well as the objects compensating security deficit arisen after abolishing the control for internal borders are disscused in this article.
The problem of methods securing internal European Union borders is analyzed in the article. Also, supervision of internal borders as one of the most efficient objects for securing internal borders is widely analyzed. The experience of other European countries after abolishing control of internal borders is overviewed. Article provides practical problems, which have been faced by the European Union countries, completely applying the Shengen acquis rules and abolished common internal borders.
The importance of international cooperation with neighboring regarding the border control is discussed. Contracts with neighboring countries on the cooperation in controlling borders are an efficient means for internal borders as well as to increasing national security. Article provides practical recommendations for concluding of such contracts as one of means to compensate upcoming security deficit for Republic of Lithuania.
Internal security of a country cannot be just a national problem, such issues should be solved on the level of European Union. As an assumption it would be reasonable to establish a common security mechanism for countries belonging to the European Union and having common borders, according to the experience of old Shengen convention countries. After implementing the means discussed in the article, it would be possible to state that the main European Union goal is reached – to become the area of freedom, security, and justice.

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