Friday, January 22, 2016

Valls: “The state of emergency will be maintained until the defeat of Daech” – L’Express

And if the state of emergency becomes permanent? Asked Friday by the BBC on this exception and the estimated duration, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, said she would remain in place “the necessary time”. “As long as the threat is present, we must use all necessary means”, he has added according to the English media, adding “until we got rid of Daech”. The state of emergency, in place after the attacks of 13 November in Paris, has already been extended by three months.

Prime Minister also estimated that the influx of migrants put Europe in danger. “We can not say we can not accept all the refugees, all those fleeing -that terribly the war in Iraq or Syria, will be welcomed in Europe (…) Otherwise our companies will be totally destabilized, “he has said.

Promising home causes major influx, according to Valls

If he refused to criticize Merkel’s policy of welcoming migrants it nevertheless wished to explain that “a message that is to say ‘come on, you’ll stay’ causes major movements. Today when we speak in Europe, within seconds, it’s on all smartphones in the camps refugees around Libya. ”

Influx would be the fault of the German Chancellor, the British journalist asks? “I can not say that Angela Merkel had courage, she explained why she wanted to receive refugees in the name of values ​​but also because Germany needed these refugees … But it is clear after the incidents Cologne, although with the flow continues seen (…) Europe needs to find concrete solutions to its borders, “he said.

“We must control the EU’s external borders”

A few minutes before, Manuel Valls explained why he believes Europe must act emergency to better control its external borders. “If Europe is not able to protect its own borders, it is the very idea of ​​Europe will be questioned,” Has he said. Asked about border controls within the European Union, which threatens to many observers the end of Schengen, Manuel Valls said that the very concept of Europe was now in great danger.

“The Schengen area may die,” he admitted (…) if Europe is not able to protect its borders, the European project, the design that fathers founders of Europe is in very grave danger, “he stressed. He emphasized the necessity of” border guards “and” external border control “, otherwise” we will restore the interior border controls Europe and the Schengen area that will be represented at issue. “

” Many ways “to find solutions in Europe and” the east “

So there is “urgent,” added the Prime Minister, who wants the establishment of “many ways” to “find solutions”, both in Europe but also “the east, in the Middle and the Middle East. “

More than one million migrants, most refugees arrived in Europe in 2015. Sometimes traveling perilous way. Even today, Friday, January 22, at least 21 people died in two shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea off the Greek islands, recalls the BBC .

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