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Schengen rules are back in place, Home Affairs Ministry says; no threats made against Malta

Source: Independent, 03/01/2016

The suspension of Schengen rules, which was put in place as a
precaution before the Valletta Summit on Migration and CHOGM, has now
been lifted.

Systems have returned to normal, a Home Affairs Ministry statement
read, adding that the temporary border controls at the Malta
International Airport and the Passenger Terminal in Valletta have now
stopped.

In recent days, the international community kept alert during the end
of year celebrations, however no threat was made against Malta, the
statement read, "thus the Schengen rules are now back in
place".

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that the treaty
was suspended as a precaution. "When we suspended it, we met with
situations that led us not to accept people entering the country. We
realised that there were people who instead of coming to Malta by
boat, go to Italy, buy a false Austrian passport, purchase a low-cost
ticket and come over to apply for asylum and look for a job when they
should have done so in their first European country they set foot
upon. If we had not suspended Schengen, this racket would not have
been caught".

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