{{The French President Nicholas Sarkozy has called for a “revision” of the Schengen Agreement threatening to “suspend France’s participation” if a new government policy is not implemented within twelve months.}}<\/p>\n
There is a large pupulation of Rwandans living in France and various countries in Europe. Rwanda has enjoyed historical ties with France, German and Belgium.<\/p>\n
The Schengen treaty is intended to guarantee the management of migration by controlling the external borders of Europe, however this relies heavily on neighbouring countries. <\/p>\n
Sarkozy threatened to pull France out of the visa-free Schengen zone unless the European Union makes progress on reducing illegal immigration. <\/p>\n
The Schengen Agreement is a treaty signed on 14 June 1985 between member states of the European Economic Community.<\/p>\n
The treaty was supplemented by the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement 5 years later. <\/p>\n
The treaties created Europe’s borderless Schengen Area, which operates very much like a single state for international travel with external border controls for travelling in and out of the area, but with no internal border controls. <\/p>\n
Sarkozy recently criticised foreigners in France, made the threat in the hope of destabilising Socialist candidate Francois Hollande who is currently leading in pre-election polls. <\/p>\n
400 million Europeans in the Schengen zone can cross borders without a passport. Illegal immigrants who access the area can also take advantage of this ability to move freely between countries. <\/p>\n
According to 2010 statistics indicating distribution by continent of origin of third country nationals living in the EU, the largest proportion (36.5 %) were citizens of a European country outside the EU-27 a total of 7.2 million people; among these more than half were citizens of Turkey, Albania or Ukraine. <\/p>\n
The second biggest group was from Africa (25.2 %), followed by Asia (20.9 %), the Americas (16.4 %) and Oceania (0.9 %). More than half of the citizens of African countries that were living in the EU were from North Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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