Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-07-Speech-4-227-000"
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"en.20110707.17.4-227-000"2
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"Schengen is a failure. The citizens of Europe had been promised that the dismantling of EU internal border controls would go hand in hand with the strengthening of external border controls and the maintenance of a high level of security.
What has really happened? Europe has become a sieve. External border controls are not sufficient. There is a general political laxity as regards the management of migratory flows in general, and of so-called asylum seekers, in particular. This laxity has been fuelled by European laws developed by Brussels, which is of the firm belief that the massive importation of immigrants from beyond the boundaries of Europe will solve our economic, social and even demographic problems!
All Member States have the right, and even the duty, to manage their borders and to control the goods and people who cross them. What the recent, on-going Lampedusa crisis has shown is that the absence of internal border controls is a powerful incentive for any would-be illegal immigrant to rush to any easily accessible point of Europe. They know that, thereafter, it will be easy for them to exploit our laws and this lack of control to go wherever they like.
We do not need to start reforming this safeguard clause of the Schengen Agreement. What we need is to abolish the Agreement itself."@en1
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