Schengen Zone

Romania and Bulgaria partially joined the EU passport-free zone on Sunday, marking a new step in integration with the Union.

Austria previously blocked Bulgaria´s and Romania´s entry into the Schengen Area over concerns about illegal immigration.

Slovenia said it will introduce border checks with Hungary and Croatia after Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia over terror concerns.

France has extended border controls that have been in place since 2015 in defiance of the European Union’s open borders Schengen treaty and a European Court decision that hinted the French policy was unlawful.

Italian police have arrested a 28-year-old Albanian man suspected of helping procure a weapon for the radical Islamic extremist behind the 2016 Nice terrorist attack.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany on Sunday implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants.

Roma gypsy migrants ordered to leave French territory have been using an EU loophole to avoid deportation, spending just hours across the border in Belgium and then returning.

Over half of the Tunisian migrants who claimed Italian citizenship between 2012 to 2017 used EU Free Movement rules to move to France.

French president Emmanuel Macron has called for an overhaul of the European Union’s internal border agreement after noting that terrorists have used migration flows.

BERLIN (AP) — German police have raided the homes and businesses of four men linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week.

The European Union will reportedly bar travellers from the United States while allowing people from China to enter the bloc after lifting Chinese coronavirus travel restrictions, a report from the New York Times claimed on Tuesday.

The European Commission is set to present a plan in Brussels on removing border controls within the visa-free Schengen zone.

The 25th anniversary of the open-border Schengen agreement is set to take place this year as most European Union member states have closed their borders due to the Wuhan coronavirus.

The president of the European Commission admitted that leaders in the EU “underestimated” the scale of the coronavirus outbreak, as the bloc has closed its external borders to foreign travellers.

The French PM warned that if the UK doesn’t enact stricter coronavirus measures, Britons will be banned from travelling to the country.

The president of the European Commission called for borders to remain open within the EU’s Free Movement travel zone during the COVID-19 outbreak, as countries across the bloc enact border controls.

Angela Merkel was accused of spreading panic after she claimed that up to 70% of German residents could become infected with the coronavirus.

The EU will not impose border controls to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, despite hundreds of cases being confirmed in Italy.

Reforms to the European Union’s Dublin agreement could see countries that do not accept migrants banned from the Schengen passport-free zone, according to claims from a Greek newspaper.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered preparations to be made to end free movement of people with the European Union when Britain is due to leave the bloc on October 31st. Recently appointed by incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson,

The chief of Sweden’s National Border Police has sounded the alarm on the ability of his force to do its job — even to the low standard required by the European Union under its Schengen zone open borders agreement.

EU lawmakers say convenient travel without ID checks inside Europe’s passport-free Schengen area could be a thing of the past if countries keep prolonging controls on European citizens.

Germany and Denmark have both elected to continue emergency border controls that were first instated during the migrant crisis for a further six months.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says border checks within the European Union won’t disappear “as long as order and security can’t be guaranteed.”

BERLIN (AP) – The German government says it will extend passport controls along some of its national borders for another six months starting in November. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in a written statement Thursday that the authorities

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border police have detained 21 Iraqi migrants hiding in a corn field near the Hungarian border who say they were trying to reach the visa-free Schengen travel zone.

Hungary is set to introduce plans to detain all migrants entering the country until their asylum applications have been fully processed – a move the government says it expects will go off “like a bomb” in Brussels.

Intelligence services in Italy believe that the country faces an imminent threat from Islamic State fighters based in Albania, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.

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Irish journalist Hermann Kelly, who is the communications director for the EFDD Euroskeptic group in the European Parliament, spoke with Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM on Tuesday about the morning’s horrific terror attacks in Belgium.