State of the Schengen Area

On the occasion of the historic anniversary of 40 years of Schengen, a historic ship returns to the border triangle. Prominence is expected for the celebration of the day.The ship, on which the Schengen Agreement was signed in 1985, will shortly start its journey home to Luxembourg. On 6 June it will leave the shipyard in Niederkassel near Bonn, where it has been completely renovated and modernised, as the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Luxembo…

State of the Schengen area

Written by Costica Dumbrava. The development of the Schengen area is one of the major achievements of European integration. The removal of checks on persons at the Schengen states’ internal borders greatly facilitates the exercise of the EU freedoms of movement, which brings significant social and economic benefits. The Schengen area has come under increased stress in the past decade, owing to multiple challenges relating to increased migration …

Controls returned to the Schengen borders. LIST of affected countries and what tourists should know about the Schengen border. LIST of affected countries and what tourists should know More countries from the Schengen area have temporarily returned controls to the internal borders in 2025 due to security, migration and health problems. From Spain to Sweden, here is a guide to the affected countries and documents you will need [...] Controls resto…

This may reassure the people's soul, but it does not solve anything if you do not want to annoy the EU partners and abolish the Schengen system. For a long time the proposal (...) is on the table: you need asylum centres with humanitarian and legal security in a third country, where the applications are being examined, and who manages to get here despite controls, also comes there. In case of success, people are distributed and smugglers lose th…

More Schengen countries have temporarily re-installed border controls in 2025 due to security, migration and health problems. From Spain to Sweden, here is a guide to tourist countries,...