This is another one where I don't think we'll ever agree, Bicicleur.
If the EU and particularly the Schengen countries mean open internal borders, then there should be no problem with these migrants moving to other countries. If someone doesn't pay the train fare, I'm sure they would walk.
No, not all the migrants had family in France, or Belgium or the Netherlands, but the ones who don't would have to be mentally deficient not to realize that in a country with high unemployment of its own and very paltry "benefits" by northern European standards, they'd do better elsewhere.
What you're basically proposing is that the countries on the front line because of geography, like Italy and Greece, should shoulder the entire burden of these people. The only option that would leave to Italy would be to let them all drown, as I said above. That isn't really an option for any civilized country.
This is the solution of the European Union? Is the Union only meant to benefit Northern Europe and to hell with Southern Europe? This is precisely the kind of problem that the Union should solve, but certain countries just want to use it to their benefit, with no costs whatsoever. Most European countries always want someone else to deal with their problems. Look at the Balkan mess. They should have handled that: it's their continent. Did they? No.
Given that's the case, and it's really, under the phony verbiage, each country for itself, then tear up the documents, as I've advocated for a long time, and make sure we drop the Euro too. Let national currencies fall to their own levels. We'll see how countries like Germany like it when suddenly our goods are cheaper.
I'm sorry Angela, but controll on the outer borders was part of the Schengen deal.
You can't have open inner borders without controlling the outer borders. Otherwise there is no deal for open inner borders.
That is written explicitly in the EU deal about inner borders, and when France closed the border at Ventimiglia they had every right to do so, it was not a violation of the treaty.
I don't say Italy shouldn't get any help from the EU at their outer borders, but the first step is to at least play by the rules.
You can't have the benefits if you don't fulfill your duties yourself.
You know very well that in the mean time there are deals between the EU and African countries now to get some grip of the stream of so-called refugees, allthough these deals are sometimes hypocrit.
And the EU pays part of the costs of controll at the Italian outer borders.
And is I told, northern countries have taken up far more of them than Italy.
I think you're still to quick to accept the stories of some Italian politicians and so-called humanitarian organisations.
You know many humanitarian organisations all of a sudden stopped their operations in the Mediterranean when Italy requested them to sign a charter or else they wouldn't be allowed to enter Italian harbours any more. The charter enabled the Italian authorities to controll the actions of these organisations. They didn't sign the charter. It's obvious they had some things to hide. They were enabling illegal smuggling operations for so-called refugees.
Still many refugees drown in the Mediterranean, but ironically, there are a lot less now then when all these 'refugee operations' were in place.
The refugee operations simply invited human traffickers to take ever higher risks.
Things have changed at the border now, but there is still a lot of hypocrisy, and it should have happened much earlier.
The racism against other Italians is now missing, of course.