EU must defend Schengen says Gentiloni

(ANSA) - Rome, February 10 - The European Union must defend the Schengen Area by jointly managing the migrant emergency, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Wednesday. The Union must "avert the concrete risk that unilateral decisions to reinstate border controls will produce a domino effect...
    rescinding the free circulation of people," he told the EU foreign and political committees. Questioning Schengen could have "irreversible" consequences and "enormous economic impact," Gentiloni said, adding the Dublin Regulation on countries of first arrival must be revised because it is "difficult to apply given the current flow" of asylum seekers fleeing wars and Islamic terror in Africa and the Middle East.