This is stated in a statement published on the website of the Elysian Palace.

“Frontier means freedom in security. Therefore, we must reconsider the Schengen zone: all those who want to participate must fulfill the obligations of responsibility (strict border control) and solidarity (the same asylum policy, with the same rules of acceptance and rejection), ”the text says.

In June 2018, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that France and Germany support plans to strengthen the external borders of the European Union and strengthen the Frontex border control agency to counter illegal secondary migration.