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Nicolas Sarkozy
Both limitation of protectionism and the Schengen zone are considered by the European Union as great achievements, the latter being deemed as the most important achievement after the continental currency euro.
Sarkozy, on Sunday, threatened to destroy the Schengen zone, unless a new pact was made to cut down on illegal immigration. He made this allegation in a electoral speech he delivered.
The Schengen zone, which extends to 25 member countries (Romania and Bulgaria are the only ones not to have been admitted to it yet, because they could not secure the outer frontier of the EU, and have not engaged in fighting corruption well enough), means that the citizens of the European Union may travel from country to country without the need of a visa or the check of their passports.
The Schengen zone has been in place for 27 years, and came under pressure last year, after the Arab Spring, as a wave of immigrants came from the north of Africa and entered Europe through Italy. At that moment, some restrictions on Schengen were demanded in order to protect the other member countries from being invaded by illegal immigrants.
The falling of the Schengen zone would be seen as a symbolic defeat of the European Union and the falling of a symbol, but is though to benefit the United Kingdom, which would see some of the pressure on its shoulders lifted as the flux of people to go to Britain would be diminished.
Sarkozy said that the unchecked immigration would ruin Europe’s capacity to integrate the new arrivals and would put an unbearable stress on the social services, which are created to offer the people a safety net for the destitute.
He said that the measure was urgent, because France could not be subjected to the shortcomings of the Europe’s external border. Sarkozy deemed it as the only way to avoid an “implosion of Europe.”
The president-hopeful said that if he saw within the next 12 months that no serious step was taken in the direction of cutting down on immigration, then France would suspend the Schengen accord on its territory until negotiations were completed.
In front of some 30,000 people who came to hear him speak, Sarkozy proposed a form of act similar to “Buy American Act,” which would impose the governments to favor the products produced within the European Union. Sarkozy said that unless such an act is being drafted and applied, France will apply it unilaterally.
Sarkozy called the current European market “savage,” and said that he wanted a European market that does not open to the other markets, when the other markets do not open to Europe.
The contender Francois Hollande retorted by calling the speech of the president Sarkozy hypocritical, considering that Sarkozy has been criticizing Hollande’s stance on renegotiating the budgetary provision in the treaties of the European Union.
Hollande added that while being unable to provide the French people with some serious solutions for France, Sarkozy is using Europe as a scapegoat. The program of the French president is deemed by his opponents as ill-prepared.
Sarkozy is running behind his main contender, Socialist Francois Hollande, and has stated on various occasions that he was the candidate that would continue the process of European development.
He pictured himself as the only one to stand a chance to continue to work with chancellor Merkel and the other European leaders, while asserting that the Socialist candidate could not keep up with the new development of the continental politics.
Hollande is considered the favorite to these elections, most of all because of the major shortcomings of the domestic policies applied by Sarkozy in France during his first term.
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