12/05/2011 11:22
EU interior ministers to discuss future of the Schengen zone
Schengen rule improvements will be discussed by EU interior ministers on 12 May and are expected to be finalised at an EU summit next month.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called for a revision of Schengen after France stopped migrants arriving by train from Italy.
The French government was angered by Italy's decision to grant the migrants - many of them French speakers - temporary residence permits, which enabled them to enter France legally.
Italy complains that it is not getting enough help from its EU partners, faced with the influx of people fleeing political turmoil and violence in Tunisia and Libya, the BBC reports.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called for a revision of Schengen after France stopped migrants arriving by train from Italy, the source says.
According to BBC the move reflects concern about the arrival in Italy this year of about 25,000 illegal migrants from North Africa, most of them Tunisians.