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From 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy proposed to rethink the Schengen agreements

2020-11-06T19:03:10.126Z


Eight years after the campaign of the former President of the Republic, the terrorist threat recreates the debate around the free movement of non-European nationals in the Schengen area.


“The Schengen agreements no longer make it possible to respond to the gravity of the situation.

They need to be revised. ”

It is March 11, 2012, eight years before Emmanuel Macron's call to re-found them.

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During his meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), Nicolas Sarkozy, candidate for a second term, presented to the rostrum what would become one of the key elements of his campaign for

“a Europe that protects.” “We must highlight is implementing a reform for Schengen as structural as the one we have just implemented for the Euro, ”he

adds to his supporters, proposing to temporarily suspend the free movement of non-European nationals within the Schengen area.

“We cannot leave the management of migratory flows in the sole hands of technocrats and the courts.

Decisions to enter our territory must be the expression of a political will decided by national sovereignty "

, argues the candidate, calling for

" a common discipline in

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Source: lefigaro

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