France mulls suspending Schengen commitments

France is considering suspending its commitments under the Schengen treaty on border-free travel in the European Union due to an influx of migrants from Tunisia and Libya, a source close to the French presidency said on Friday.

"It seems to us that we need to think about a mechanism that would allow us, when there is a systematic disruption at one of the EU's external borders, to intervene with a temporary suspension for as long as the disruption lasts," the source said.