EU must impose tighter border controls against influx of refugees says French prime minister

The huge influx of migrants from Syria and Iraq is putting the future of the EU in grave danger, French prime minister Manuel Valls has warned. Mr Valls said European societies could be “totally destabilised” unless the EU imposes tighter controls at external borders.

The French PM told the BBC: “It’s Europe that could die, not the Schengen area. If Europe can’t protect its own borders, it’s the very idea of Europe that could be thrown into doubt.

“It could disappear, of course, the European project, not Europe itself, not our values, but the concept we have of Europe, that the founding fathers had of Europe. Yes, that is in very grave danger. That’s why you need border guards, border controls on the external borders of the European Union,” he said.