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Macron: Schengen Area No Longer Works â€` Refoundation Is Indispensable

Source: Schengen News, 25/05/2019


After the three-month national debate initiative to appease protesters
from the yellow vests movement, the French president held a press
conference at the Elyse Palace, the first in his two years long
presidency.
During his speech, Macron talked about the Schengen Zone and migration
to the EU as well.
“First at the European level, we decided to have common borders; the
famous Schengen area with the rules of the Dublin agreement. It does
not work anymore.,” he said in front of tens of French and European
journalists.
Macron also said that to him, the migration issue is the second
biggest challenge for Europe, after climate. He insisted that Europe
must profoundly refound its development policy and our migration policy.
“Europe, to which I believe, is a strong sovereign Europe… it is also
a Europe that keeps its borders. Which protects them. It is a Europe
that has a well-founded and common right of asylum and where
responsibility goes with solidarity. It is on these bases that
Schengen must be reshaped, even if it means a Schengen with fewer
states. I do not want to have in the Schengen states that say I am
(part of Schengen) when it comes to freedom of movement, but I do not
want to be in when it comes to sharing the burden,” he said.
“This re-foundation is indispensable,” he said suggesting that some of
the member countries who are not contributing in migration issues
should be excluded from the area.
Previously in March, through an open letter addressed to the citizens
of Europe and published in newspapers in all 28 EU countries, Macron
has called for a “European Renaissance”, proposing Schengen reforms.
Macron is not the first person to suggest that the Schengen Area
should shrink. In December last year the Belgian Prime Minister
Charles Michel has asserted that the Schengen Area should expel the
Visegrad group �` the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia �`
for showing no solidarity in the management of migration.
Whereas in December 2018, Michael called the alliance of the Hungarian
Prime Minister Victor Orban and the Italian Home Affairs Minister
Matteo Salvini “schizophrenic and hypocritical” accusing them of
instrumentalizing the migration dossier and to not resolving it.


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