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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10365
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/immigration

Rome and Paris agree on need to tighten up Schengen

Brussels, 26/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Rome on Tuesday 26 April for a Franco-Italian summit, the aim of which was to reduce tension over the issue of Tunisian migrants arriving in Lampedusa in recent months, to whom Italy has started to issue temporary residence permits and travel documents, the President of the Italian Council and the French Head of State, Mr Berlusconi and Mr Sarkozy respectively, stressed their hopes of reforming the Schengen free-movement area and the way it...