The European Parliament adopted a text to create a new European body to protect the EU's external borders, which can mobilize up to 1,500 border agents.
With this new agency, which will replace the Frontex is intended to avoid chaos in a particular external border, as the situation experienced in Greece, which endangers the free movement in the Schengen area.
The adoption of new legislation, which will come into effect in the autumn, had to overcome the reluctance of some states who feared for their national sovereignty.
The approved text, instead of the Commission who decides where and when to intervene, this power has passed to the European Council and therefore the Member States.
If the country affected by a massive influx of migrants reject the intervention, other countries may temporarily reintroduce controls at internal borders of the Schengen area.
Thus, "we recognize in practice that our external borders are common borders, of which we are all responsible," said the Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos.
The new entity will also have a more important role that Frontex in the expulsion of migrants to their countries of origin when they are not eligible for refugee status.
For technical reasons, Parliament shall vote again, probably in September to finalize the new device.
Last year, 850,000 migrants arrived by sea in Greece before the pact between the EU and Turkey braked arrivals that way and diverted the flow to Italy through Libya.
Since the beginning of the year, 2,800 people drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe, according to UN data.
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