French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve with his boss
France's move to "close its borders for several weeks," as Cazeneuve called it, does not mean that people cannot come into France from other European countries during this period. Rather they can enter the country after being subjected to stricter border control measures.
The interior minister explained the action in the "context of a terrorist threat or risk of disruption to public order."
The Schengen Area agreement mandates open borders around Europe for 26 European Union nations, but Cazeneuve told CNN affiliate BFMTV that France won't be violating the treaty because countries that have signed it can take such measures for "particular circumstances."
The more stringent border control measures aren't the first time a European country has temporarily suspended the Schengen treaty. In 2002, Italy did so ahead of a massive anti-war rally in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
France has seen several terror attacks this year, including the killing of 17 people in Paris at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and at a kosher store.
Top officials from around the world will attend the U.N. conference -- also known as Paris 2015 -- in the French capital between November 30 and December 11, making it a possible prime target for terrorists.
Cazeneuve said the climate change meeting "carries a large message for humanity," adding that other host countries have taken similar border control measures in the past.
The interior minister explained the action in the "context of a terrorist threat or risk of disruption to public order."
Maybe this is related, I don't know but on the 29th of September the Minister of State for Foreign Trade in France threatened to pull out of the TTIP because of lack of disclosure, I believe Germany had the same reservations
In an interview with Sud-Ouest, Matthias Fekl threatened to "call a complete halt" to the TTIP negotiations if things do not change. EurActiv France reports.
Fekl told the French newspaper that he believes the "total lack of transparency" in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations poses a "democratic problem".
The Minister of State for Foreign Trade called on the United States to show "reciprocity" in the negotiations. "American members of parliament have access to a much higher number of documents than we do in Europe," he said.
France and Germany have both expressed reservations about the way in which the negotiations have been conducted on several occasions.
Full article can be read here
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Also this article where France and Germany are in agreement regarding lack of disclosure of TTIP and wanting to pull out of the process.
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So now we have a situation in France, many lives lost, in essence a terrorist attack.
It seems strange to me that one of those attacks involved a friendly football game between France and Germany with the French President as a spectator in those said games.
Seems to me that there is more to this situation than any party involved is disclosing. And also more than one faction with ulterior motives may be involved. In essence the old maxim comes to mind, killing two birds with one stone.
Sorry that this sounds so dispassionate, truth is my heart is bleeding, not just for the atrocities committed against the people of France, but also the people of the Muslim world and lets face it we as a whole the people of the world, because we the people are the ultimate target.