Thank you.
First of all, border management is obviously an extremely important issue. The first thing to be said--and I think this is extremely important--is that we have a common set of rules and procedures on how our common external borders are managed. So every land border, every airport, every seaport of the European Union is managed in accordance with rules set in Brussels, and the procedures are identical. A huge investment in training and equipment has been made over the last 10 to 15 years since the Iron Curtain fell. Since these countries showed an interest in joining the European Union, there has been a long, sustained effort on our part, on the part of the existing member states, through twinning mechanisms and indeed a lot of assistance from Canada and other friends around the world as well.
The situation today is that when they join the European Union, they must meet the standards for policing our external borders, and therefore the Hungarian-Romanian border, to take your example, is treated in exactly the same way as Amsterdam airport, the Finnish-Russian border, or any land, sea, or air border in the European Union. Does that pose problems for countries where, in border areas, people speaking the same language and sharing the same culture find themselves, because of the way European empires were assembled and then broken up...does it make their lives difficult? Of course it does. And we have a number of answers to that.
First of all, there are a number of local border arrangements, such as special visa regimes, special border crossing regimes, or keeping borders open at all times of day and night--sometimes villages are cut in half--so that people can carry on their local lives. Ultimately, this problem will be solved very soon because Romania will be a member of the European Union, either on January 1, 2007, or January 1, 2008. Then that border will be a European border and life will be a lot simpler for people living on either side.
That won't solve the problem of the Ukrainian border. There will always be difficulties--Europe's a funny place--but we will always try to find solutions that are sensitive to the needs of local people while providing the security we all need, because once you're inside the European Union, you have various rights to move around within it. So it matters to the people in London, Brussels, or Madrid what happens all the way over there on the Finnish-Russian border, or at an airport in the south of Italy, or on the Hungarian-Romanian border. We know that. It's a common endeavour.