As part of the work carried out under the French presidency to reform and strengthen the Schengen area in the face of new challenges, the Council today adopted its general approach on the reform of ...

On 19 June 2018, EU ambassadors endorsed, on behalf of the Council, a mandate for negotiations on a proposal amending the Schengen border code as regards temporary reintroduction of controls at ...

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) is increasingly coming under the microscope as he attempts to sell Republican colleagues in both chambers on a potential border deal and pull off the arduous task of ...

Several Schengen member states have reintroduced internal border checks in 2025, marking a significant shift in the region’s approach to freedom of movement. Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria, ...

Border controls aren’t supposed to exist between EU member states – that’s the promise of the 1985 Schengen treaty. Yet today, travelers routinely face checks when crossing borders within the union.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) is ...