02/12/2011 13:21
Sarkozy calls for rethinking passport-free Schengen agreement
French President Nicola Sarkozy said Thursday that the passport-free Schengen agreement should be rethought and re-founded so as to regulate border deals within certain European Union countries, the xinhuanet.com reports.
Sarkozy made the remarks while delivering a speech on Europe and the eurozone debt crisis in the southern French port city of Toulon, the same city where he spoke in 2008 about the global financial crisis and the need to "re-found global capitalism."
"A Europe that applies the principle of free movement internally and does not control its external borders cannot last. The Schengen must be rethought," Sarkozy said in the speech.