Mr. Guy Verhofstadt:

The bottom line, the red line for the European Parliament, will be no hard border. It is not for us to say it has to be this or that system as that is for the negotiations to provide, but we have to give the green light, or the red light if we do not agree. "No hard border" is not a rhetorical element of our position but a firm position of the European Parliament and we will never accept an outcome of negotiations which does exactly the opposite. There are possibilities to achieve it and in the negotiations we will have to try to find viable solutions. I have indicated a few possibilities in this area.

There was a remark on my commitment to the external borders of the European Union. When there are problems with the external borders of the European Union, they are mainly because of a lack of European Union. They are problems caused by policies of nation states and not by a so-called European policy. There is a lack of European policy on migration, asylum and border management. Excuse me if a use a non-parliamentary term, but it is crazy.