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| France reintroduces EU border controls: Sarkozy |
| 2005-07-13 |
| BRUSSELS, July 13 (AFP) - France has activated a clause in the Schengen open borders agreement enabling it to reintroduce border controls within the European Union, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday. "If we don't reinforce border controls when around 50 people die in London, I don't know when I would do it," Sarkozy said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU interior ministers. France has used the clause in the past, mainly for major sporting and political events, but Sarkozy said it was activated this time in response to the London bombings last Thursday in which at least 52 people were killed. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Nothing unusual, every country can do so if necessary... a major soccer match can be a reason sometimes. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-07-13 18:02 |
| #4 Sarkozy is a "young Chirac" with an enormous personnal ambition, all show and talk, not much substance, and is marketing himself as the only "alternative" (for example, courtizes both the National Front voters AND the muslims, being quite muslim-friendly and having done some legislative work that outdid the socialists); he is pro-immigration, despite what you've read, and has a communautarist, multiculturalist vision of society. The only thing I can love in him is that he's more free market and atlantist than most "conservative" pols. Otherwise, IMHO, he's a dangerous man to France, and, of course, could well be its next president. Some readign material in french from dissident UMP (Sarkozy party) here : http://www.union-republicaine-populaire.com/main.html |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-07-13 15:17 |
| #3 Oh, well, if France says it's ok, perhaps the USA will finally do the same for it's borders. |
| Posted by: Hyper 2005-07-13 14:45 |
| #2 THE COUNTRY OF PEACE AND TOLERANCE |
| Posted by: MACOFROMOC 2005-07-13 14:14 |
| #1 How unilateral and cowboyish. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-13 13:46 |