Alice Weidel, 'Schengen doesn't work, expel migrants'

"Border protection is the prerogative of sovereign states. If the European Union is unable to protect our external borders, then it is up to individual sovereign states to protect their own national borders.

If the Schengen agreement no longer works, we must leave it and defend our borders ourselves." This was stated by the leader of Alternative für Deutschland, Alice Weidel, at a press conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

"The Alternative für Deutschland party supports precisely this vision: if Europe fails in the fundamental tasks enshrined in the treaties, we should have the right to veto and to get out of this chaos, this disorderly situation - he remarked -. This is not what Europe should represent. We do not want Europeans to lose their home and their identity because of people from abroad who intend to bring havoc in our countries: they must not be welcome; they must be detained and subsequently expelled", thundered the German leader.