Europe's border-free travel zone could be suspended for two years amid a warning from the French prime minister that mass immigration could kill the entire EU project.
Officials will meet on Monday to discuss suspending the Schengen Agreement – ripping up one of the EU’s most
sacred rules.
The tumult triggered demands from Tory MPs for David Cameron to seize the moment and increase his own demands in Britain’s EU referendum negotiations with Brussels.
Eurosceptics said that, with borders being re-imposed across the continent, now was the time to demand Britain should be able to impose its own limits on free movement.
On a day of drama in capitals across Europe:
- Mr Cameron admitted he could drop his demand for a four-year ban on migrant benefits if Europe offers an alternative;
- The Czech PM said Britain could be offered a so-called emergency brake instead, allowing temporary limits on EU workers;
- A poll showed the UK’s referendum race remains neck and neck – with ‘stay’ on 52 per cent and ‘leave’ on 48 per cent;
- EU figures showed a staggering 1.25million migrants arrived in Europe last year;
- Turkey promised German chancellor Angela Merkel it would do ‘everything it could’ to stem the tide of migrants;
- The Slovenian PM warned there would be ‘conflicts’ between EU member states unless the crisis was brought under control within weeks.
Some 26 countries removed border controls between each other under Schengen, but this unravelled as the migrant crisis took hold.
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