Germany France Border Control

[fender62]

does this mean mutti, made a mistake of letting a million unvetted migrants into germany, let alone all the rest who have made there way into europe, and more on there way.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1005177/Germany-EU-border-controls-France-Spain-migrants-Merkel-Macron

[sandyRoe]

"It has been claimed...". "According to reports...".
Fake news?

[Togo]

Oh how they are panicking. Bet you can't guess where France and Germany intended all the illegal, and legal, immigrants to end up?

[dannyk13]

The start-up of the shattering of the EU?

[fiction-factory]

All of them? No, can't guess. Europe generally but not UK and any others not in Shengen?

[douglas9401]

Excellent news on the employment front.

[fiction-factory]

I think there will be moves in the dirction of controls as time goes on. Trouble is that ignores the bigger problem which is the arrival of thousands on boats that Europe goes out of its way to rescue

[Togo]

If they are not adhering to "free movement" does it make the confected NI/Eire border "issue" a red herring?

[fender62]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1004749/angela-merkel-protest-far-right-activists-eu-migrant-crisis

[mushroom25]

//"fake news?"//

maybe - but it wouldn't represent much of an additional change to temporary Schengen controls already in place, or proposed.
https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/schengen/reintroduction-border-control/docs/ms_notifications_-_reintroduction_of_border_control_en.pdf

[New Judge]

“Trouble is that ignores the bigger problem which is the arrival of thousands on boats that Europe goes out of its way to rescue”

Exactly. The entire strategy (if there is one) put forward by the EU is to deal with the migrants after they have landed. Where they are going to go, how they will be “shared” among the members (perhaps forgetting that they cannot be compelled to stay anywhere within Schengen), who should “process” them. The strategy should be to keep them out, to stop plucking them from rubber boats a few miles off the African coast and any that are “rescued” returned there forthwith. No amount of border controls will solve the problem because for so long as they continue to arrive, under the current strategy they will have to be accommodated somewhere.

“If they are not adhering to "free movement" does it make the confected NI/Eire border "issue" a red herring?”

It always has been a red herring. Neither the UK nor Ireland has any intention of imposing border controls on the island of Ireland and the EU has no resources nor any powers to do so.