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Tunisian migrants with an EU flag on Lampedusa (Photo: Valentina Pop)

France and Italy propose reform of EU border rules

by Honor Mahony, Brussels,

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday (26 April) called for changes to be made to an EU agreement on passport-free travel following weeks of tension over migrants from north Africa.

At a summit in Rome, both leaders said the 1995 Schengen Agreement needs to be revised and that deportation agreements had to be made urgently with African countries so that migrants could be sent home.

"We want Schengen to survive, but to survive Sch...

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Tunisian migrants with an EU flag on Lampedusa (Photo: Valentina Pop)

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