Guidelines for the 2026 Budget - Section III

Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka

11. Removed: Highlights, in the face of new challenges in internal and external security, the importance of ensuring proper implementation Added: Calls for the withdrawal of the Asylum and Migration Pact, Removed: in full compliance with international human rights law, and of respecting the principles of solidarity and the fair sharing of responsibility; Added: and the introduction of real and efficient controls at the Schengen borders; stresses that effective Removed: management and protection of the EU’s external Removed: borders, both land and maritime, are essential for maintaining the freedoms Added: borders is essential to prevent illegal immigration and for the proper functioning of the Schengen Removed: area and Added: area, and is crucial for the security of the EU and its citizens; Removed: emphasises Added: calls for the establishment of hubs outside the Schengen borders, where asylum seekers would await a decision on whether to be granted asylum or sent back to their country of arrival; calls for support from EU funds for the construction of physical barriers at the Schengen borders; underlines the need to Removed: better protect people from trafficking and enhance support to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States and the Union in combating criminal networks, particularly those Added: strengthen the fight against criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling and Removed: human trafficking, so as to reinforce law enforcement and the judicial response to these criminal networks, as well as to support Member States facing hybrid threats, in particular Added: trafficking and to address the EU’s vulnerability regarding the instrumentalisation of migrants as Removed: defined in the Crisis Regulation20; 20 Regulation (EU) 2024/1359 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1147, OJ L, 2024/1359, 22.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1359/oj. Added: part of hybrid attacks;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE769.787v01-00