The chair of the parliamentary
Schengen committee said Thursday shutting down the passport-free
zone is not the way to deal with the inflow of migrants and
asylum seekers.
"The solution to the problem of migratory flows is certainly
not shutting down Schengen but enacting it stringently," MP
Laura Ravetto said.
"Schengen allows for the free circulation of those citizens
who have a right to do so and it also allows for the tight
control of external borders and consequently a ban on access of
those who do not have a right to enter".
The solution, she said, would be to ramp up Schengen and
not the opposite.
"We need to intensify external border controls and possibly
also immediately set up a common border guard," Ravetto said.
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