France will not hesitate to reinstate temporary border controls, and it is ready to do so in the coming days, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Wednesday.
MOSCOW
(Sputnik) — EU member states have been struggling with an unprecedented
influx of refugees as hundreds of thousands try to enter the bloc,
fleeing violence in their crisis-ridden home countries.
Several EU states, including Germany and Austria, have reinstated
border controls, with many others sending reinforcement to their
frontiers.
"This spring we have already introduced
temporary border control [in the past]. And we will not hesitate to do
it again if we need to in the coming days or weeks, as the rules of the
Schengen states permit to do this when circumstances require it," Valls
said, addressing the lower chamber of the country’s parliament.
Earlier this month, French President Francois Hollande announced that
the country would accept an additional 24,000 asylum seekers.
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