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Schengen: Europe's passport-free travel zone 'on brink of collapse'

The system that allows passport-free movement across Europe is feared to be on the brink of collapse as nations tighten their border controls because of the refugee crisis.

European Council president Donald Tusk has admitted it is a "race against time" to save the Schengen travel zone, which has operated for 30 years.

The council president spoke before another informal summit in Valetta dedicated to the issue of Schengen and urged: "We must hurry, but without panic."

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David Cameron's four EU demands

David Cameron says his four demands on EU reform are:

  • Protect the single market for Britain and others outside the eurozone
  • Write "competitiveness into the DNA" of the whole European Union
  • Exempt Britain from an ever-closer union
  • Tackle abuses to the right to freedom of movement and enable the UK to control migration from the EU

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