Schengen Quotes & Sayings

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work. — Mark Rutte

It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen. — Paolo Gentiloni

If the Schengen system (of border-free travel) is destroyed, Europe will be seriously endangered politically and economically. That is why we Europeans have to invest billions in Turkey, Libya, Jordan and other countries in the region as quickly as possible everybody as much as they can. — Wolfgang Schauble

Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions. — Angela Merkel

If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will ... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders. — Francois Hollande

No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive. — Mark Rutte

Let's put it this way: I am confident that Schengen will continue to be defended. And when it comes to repatriations, we have the same opinion. — Paolo Gentiloni