France threatens to ‘suspend’ Schengen Treaty
22nd April 2011
Italy has given up to 26,000 illegal migrants six-month residence permits, allowing them to travel freely in the border-free Schengen zone, which covers all EU countries except Britain and Ireland.
The decision to issue travel documents to the Tunisians and other Arab migrants has triggered a French warning over the 1995 treaty.
”It seems to us that we need to think about a mechanism that would allow us, when there is a systematic disruption at one of the EU’s external borders, to intervene with a temporary suspension for as long as the disruption lasts,” said an Elysée source.
I guess Europe is full of nations after all. Whoda thunkit?