http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=6111
Lucia Pantella
"Italy's 7,600 kilometres of coastline officially became a European problem when Italy implemented the Schengen Convention in 1997. With an end to border checks between the 15 countries participating in the Schengen zone, an illegal immigrant arriving on the Sicilian coast has not just reached Italy but Europe."
