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Borrell: if a country breaks an agreement, it would be normal if there are "consequences"

Brussels, May 21 (EFE). - (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) The high representative for the Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Josep Borrell, considered on Friday "normal" that if a country breaks a collaboration agreement with the EU there will be "consequences", alluding to the recent crisis diplomatic and immigration with Morocco.FOOTAGE OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, JOSEP BORRELL, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH EFE.TRANSLATION"It is normal for the European Union to mobilize politically" when there are problems at its external borders and "to state that there are association agreements that if broken on one side would have consequences for the other," he said in an interview with EFE, the person in charge of EU diplomacy, who was in favor of "rebuilding" cooperation with Morocco."It is clear that if the agreements are broken on one side, the other side will also consider their application. But we must use a language that allows us to rebuild the disagreements because otherwise it will happen as other more serious conflicts. We must avoid that things get worse," he insisted.What happened in Ceuta, where more than 8,000 migrants arrived between Monday and Tuesday, many minors, Borrell interprets it more as "warnings" than as "threats", a term that he does not share to define the diplomatic incident with the North African country for not monitor its border with Spain and allow this migratory flow."It is evident that there are problems of diplomatic relations that sometimes trigger migratory problems," Borrell said, regarding this case that originated, among other things, from the reception in Spain for health reasons of a leader of the Polisario Front, which Borrell did not comment on.His job, he insisted, is "to rebuild positive relations", although "warning that certain instruments cannot be used and that emigration has to be a regulated, orderly process", and that also implies fighting against traffickers and stabilizing countries. transit of flows.And he warned that it is not good for migration to be associated with "disorder, border jumps, border violations and people who die taking risks at the hands of traffickers," for that reason he advocated "ordering the flow so that the migrants we need can arrive in an orderly and regulated manner. "On the contrary, Borrell warned, it is "the breeding ground for populist discourse" and, for this reason, he defended "reaching agreements between the European countries first, which until now we have not achieved. And then with the countries of origin and transit, and there some things have been achieved ".And he assured that migration policy "will play a more important role" every time there is an association agreement with a country, as the EU has with Morocco, Turkey or Libya."Our security begins very far from our borders. The security of Europeans does not begin in the streets of Marseille, it begins 2,000 or 3,000 kilometers further, in the Sahel, and that is why we have to get involved militarily. It even begins in Somalia, it begins in the Middle East. We should have a more geopolitical vision of our future," he concluded.