Germany's lax visa system which allowed thousands of eastern Europeans into the country between 2000 and 2003 has breached EU law, justice commissioner Franco Frattini has said.
According to reports in several German media this morning, Mr Frattini told MEPs in the European Parliament's justice committee that the country's so-called 'visa affair' contravened the Schengen Agreement and therefore EU law.
The Schengen Agreement came into effect in 1995 and established a borderless zo...
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