Now that the migrant emergency threatens to eclipse that following WWII, Germany and France have roused.
After meeting today, the two nations have agreed to push for more coordinated immigration policies and security measures across the EU.
Germany in particular wants mandatory refugee quotas in EU states, although a similar plan was rejected in June, after strong opposition especially from Spain and most eastern European countries.
Immigration pressure coupled with the foiled train attack over the weekend has led several EU countries to seek the reestablishment of border controls in the passport-free Schengen area.
Germany itself has warned that controls could be reintroduced unless other nations shelter more refugees.
But since June, countless migrants have arrived in Greece, Italy and the Balkans. About 7,000 walked into Serbia on Monday alone in their effort to reach the EU, first through Hungary and then onto more developed nations.
The European commission, which oversees the Schengen system, is tenaciously defending it, saying that travel area would not be changed. It added that countries could institute identify checks or other monitoring techniques on trains and in problem areas as long as these fall short of border controls.
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Feeling their whole purpose under threat and known now to be achieving so much just for themselves yet nothing of value for the ordinary citizen in the advanced EU member states.
So no border controls ? How long then for Calais type situations all across the EU. Not actually on the border of a state - both France and the UK claim several miles out to sea - but as good as. The French / Italian Alpine border already has migrant camps along it.
And Hungary's fence? We will witness in a few months the bizarre sight of Serbian buses ferrying migrants to the few remaining gaps in the fence ! Then sending them into Croatia and Slovenia. For variety how about Romania - not yet fenced off? Or up the Danube.
And the re-shipment of migrants from Albania and Bosnia across the Aegean Sea into Italy.
As other posters have already pointed out - the less populated member states must be filled up first ! With anti-racism legislation and training mandated by Brussels to backward countries like Portugal who still have no restriction on practising it!