France To Propose Suspension Of EU Open Borders

The Telegraph reports:



France is to call for an effective suspension of the Schengen Agreement on open borders across Europe this week, as it demands other European nations begin border identity checks inside Europe’s free movement zone, diplomatic sources have confirmed to The Telegraph. The radical step follows the Friday-night massacre in Paris and will lead French proposals at an emergency meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels on Friday. “The French are going to push hard for everyone else to institute border controls, particularly Belgium, but across the wider euro area. To all intents and purposes it will be a temporary suspension of Schengen,” the source said. Claude Moraes, the Labour MEP and chairman of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, said that the French demands would test Schengen “to the limits” even if remaining technically within the terms of the agreement.

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