The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has called for a halt to immigration across Europe for up to five years.
The French politician said immigration in the EU was “not working”, adding that the bloc’s external borders had become a “sieve”.
“I think we have to take the time for three or five years to suspend immigration,” he told French media.
Continuing he said: “I’m not talking about students or refugees, who we need to treat with humanity and care, but we need to examine all the procedures, we have to discuss Schengen with our neighbours, we have to apply controls on borders, we need to be more rigorous.”
He said there were “links” between immigration and “terrorist networks that infiltrate migrational flows”.
When asked if he was changing his ‘moderate position on immigration into the EU he responded: “The problems of immigration are not moderate. I know, as the politician that I am, to see the problems how they are and how French people experience them and to find solutions.”
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