
Schengen Area, EU member states which have implemented the Schengen Agreement shown in dark blue / Wikimedia *
“According to the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and his French counterpart, Claude Guéant, have formulated a letter to their colleagues in which they call for governments to once again be allowed to control their borders as “an ultima ratio” — that is, measure of last resort — “and for a limited period of time.” – Graham Summers