President Francois Hollande says France will take in 24,000 refugees over the next two years and warns that without a united EU policy to share the burden of migrants, the borderless Schengen system would collapse.
Hollande also offers to host an international conference on Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
The president says the European Commission is preparing to unveil a proposal for mandatory quotas for EU states to relocate 120,000 refugees, “which for France will represent 24,000 people. We will do it.”
Speaking at his bi-annual press conference, Hollande warns that without a properly functioning EU mechanism to share migrants among member states, the borderless Schengen zone risks collapse.
“If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work, it will collapse, and it will lead to a considerable influx and undoubtedly the end of Schengen (and) the return of national borders,” he tells reporters in Paris.
— AFP
French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during his bi-annual press conference on September 7, 2015 at the Elysee presidential palace Paris.(AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD)
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