Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Schengen Gone? France Ready to Reinstate Border Control Amid Refugee Crisis

A migrant crawls under a fence as he attempts to access the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Some thousands of migrants have been crossing fence border controls near the Channel Tunnel linking France and Britain, trying to board freight trains or trucks destined for Britain

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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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