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Now French Foreign Minister says Romania andBulgaria should not be allowed into

passport-free Schengen zone because of

security fears

Limits to movement of Romanians and Bulgarians ends on January 1, 2014

Foreign Minister questioned countries ability to police their own borders

20,000 Roma migrants live in of squalid camps on French city outskir tsGerman also opposed to allowing Bulgaria and Romania into Schengen zone

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 11:51 GMT, 30 September 2013 | UPDATED: 12:01 GMT, 30 September 2013

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Concerns: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius questioned Romania and Bulgaria's

ability t o police their borders

France's foreign minister has declared Romania and Bulgaria should not be allowed into the passport-freeSchengen zone due to security fears.

Laurent Fabius said France was concerned Romanian and Bulgarian would not be able to police their ownborders - allowing a massive influx of illegal immigrants unchecked into Europe.

He spoke out ahead of a European Union decision on whether to grant the two former Eastern Bloccountries full free movement status beginning on January 1, 2014.

He said: 'If there is not a change in conditions, we won't be in favour.'

'People coming from outside Europe could enter Romania and Bulgaria and then freely enter the rest ofEurope,' Fabius told France Inter radio.

'There's a problem there, we must be sure that Bulgaria and Romania have the means to verify that.

'For the moment, it strikes me that those conditions have not been met,' he said.

Romanian and Bulgarian citizens currently have the right to travel with a passport throughout the Schengenzone, which removes border controls among most EU countries as well as non-members such asSwitzerland and Norway.

Mr Fabius' comments came amid fierce debate within France's ruling coalition over the treatment of theRoma population.

Some 20,000 Roma migrants from Romania and Bulgaria live in hundreds of squalid make-shift camps onthe outskirts of French cities.

Tensions with local communities have made Roma migration a contentious issue ahead of municipalelections next year.


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Flashpoint: French police expel Romas from their camp, in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern

France, last year

Temporary restrictions that imposed passport checks were put in place when the two countries joined theEU in 2007, and are due to be lifted in January.

But each EU country has the right to veto the admission of a member state into the Schengen zone and avote is expected before the end of the year.

Last week, Interior Minister Manuel Valls caused uproar in the left-wing governing coalition by saying mostimmigrant Roma 'dont integrate well in France'.

Interior minister Manuel Vallss explosive words started a wide-ranging debate about the abject failure ofEU open border immigration policies.

The European Commission immediately threatened sanctions against France for its policy towards theRoma community.


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Tensions: France has clamped down on the Roma community, expelling thousands from

camps across the countr y - including t his one in the central French cit y of Villeurbanne,

outside Lyon

A spokesman insisted everyone from Bulgaria and Rumania was a citizen of the EU and therefore had aright to travel anywhere.

Three years ago the Commissions vice president, Viviane Reding, sent a similar threat to former presidentNicolas Sarkozy, saying that Roma expulsions had to stop.

The far-right National Front has made the issue a top campaign theme for March's municipal elections,warning of a new influx of immigrants if Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are allowed to travel freely withoutpassports in the Schengen zone.

In March Germany too vowed to oppose Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen passport-free zone.

Interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich warned both nations if they insist on entry into the scheme Germanywill veto it and they will fail.

The Netherlands also backs the ban. Britain is not signed up to the Schengen agreement.

Germany is undergoing an invasion of immigrants from both countries with many cities experiencingextreme social tensions as a result.

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Report commentLetsBeHonest, Engerrrland, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

These French ministers are doing a very good job of telling it how it is. Perhaps some of the British government will stop pussyfooting around the topic in fear of being called racist and actually voice the concerns of English, Scottish, Welsh and theNorthern Irish.

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Sandy Brown, London, 4 hours ago

Yes, they are coming here. I know that cos I am Psychic!

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katieconker, Hornchurch, Essex, 4 hours ago

Anyone who publicly voiced this would win a landslide at the next election!

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peter, eastleigh, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

If the can sort out gay marriage in a couple of weeks and put it through parliament they can sort this out just as quick.

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Mike UKIP Supporter, Derby, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

What's our Government doing to stop them....NOTHING.....NOTHING.. They will have had the whole of 2013 to ensure that theUK boarders are secure and told the EU that they will not be allowed into the UK. Increase the Army not degrease it and use


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than to patrol our boarders and ports....

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worlou, newcastle upon tyne, 4 hours ago

We could all be happy if it wasn't foe the EU!!

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ernie, Lichfield, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

No need to point the immigrants towards the UK, the smell of easy money is sufficient to guide them here.

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rogthe dog, Bratislava, Slovakia, 4 hours ago

Hilarious. They are not in Schengen now but how does that stop anyone walking through the border now? There might bechecks on road or rail border crossings but there is no fence on the rest of the border. Maybe the EU needs to set up a bordersuch as USA/Mexico.

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crustedcrouton, San malodorous - China, 4 hours ago

Something should be done !

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grumpyoldbag, Sheffield, 4 hours ago

Just wish Mr Cameron and Co would act on this. But as usual they are not listening to us. Vote UKIP.

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