Matteo Salvini Quotes

A Europe without internal borders can only exist if it has functioning external borders.

I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.

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.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

There should not be any immigration policy. We should welcome anyone who wants to come here.

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.

There must be protection of the external borders.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.

No mainstream politician believes in open borders, but a policy that uses its prolonged treatment of detained people as an ongoing deterrent to others has a deep flaw at its heart.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

Every country in the E.U. should make a personnel and a financial contribution in that area. We shouldn't leave alone countries like Italy and Greece that have external borders; rather, we must make the external borders safe together.

Our feeling of community and security in Europe requires safe external borders.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.