France's far right rejoiced at the weekend when Germany announced it was closing sections of its borders. No sooner had the decision been made than Marine Le Pen was demanding France follow suit.
Her call for France to tear up the Schengen rules which allows for free travel within the EU and restore controls along its border with Germany was swatted aside by interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve who dismissed the suggestion as “stupid”.
But it’s not just predictable calls from the likes of Le Pen that are pressuring the Socialist government to take action amid the ever-worsening migrant crisis.
On Monday Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right party also called for “provisional” re-establishment of France’s borders until the EU comes up with an adequate solution for dealing with huge influx of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.
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