France: EU passport-free travel should be ‘reconsidered’

Report of an important speech given by President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Toulon, 1 December 2011 on his vision of how to restore stability to the beleaguered single currency area, in which he also briefly indicated he wanted to curtail EU passport-free travel. 'Europe, which has to apply internally the principle of free movement but which does not control its external frontiers - that can't go on. Schengen must be reconsidered'.

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Financial Times Deutschland, 8.12.11: Schengen. For a Europe of borders (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1262801-europe-borders

ESO: Background information: Brussels reveals tighter border-free rules / EU plans to exclude wayward Schengen nations / Ministers rebuff Brussels on borders http://www.europeansources.info/record/brussels-reveals-tighter-border-free-rules-eu-plans-to-exclude-wayward-schengen-nations-ministers-rebuff-brussels-on-borders/

ESO: Background information: Paris acted within Schengen over Tunisians http://www.europeansources.info/record/paris-acted-within-schengen-over-tunisians/

ESO: Background information: Paris wary of ceding power to Brussels http://www.europeansources.info/record/paris-wary-of-ceding-power-to-brussels/

EUObserver, 13.12.11: Interior ministers divided on EU border controls http://euobserver.com/22/114604

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