Denmark has defended its decision to tighten border controls, insisiting this won't contravene EU rules on the freedom of movement. Speaking in Brussels, Danish Immigration and Integration Minister Søren Pind said: "This is to ensure that the darker sides of the very positive free movement do not strike as hard as they do, that we can try to get to trafficking, to people who smuggle drugs and so on." Critics, however, see any softening of Schengen, by way of stricter border checks, as an attack on one of the key achievements of European integration. ... http://www.euronews.net/