Travel News UK travellers urged to check passport validity after many fall foul A complete guide to how many months you need to travel to the EU, Asia, Africa and other top holiday destinations. 01/08/2022
Europe News EU gives fresh push to stalled migration pact EU home affairs ministers achieved "major progress" in the negotiations around a long-stalled pact on migration and asylum. 10/06/2022
Travel News Schengen visas to move online in win for travellers In response to feedback from travellers, the EU has promised a “smooth and secure” online visa process. 17/05/2022
Europe Decoded Watch: Why Austria border curbs with Hungary and Slovenia break EU law The European court says Austria's long-standing checks with Hungary and Slovenia violate Schengen Area rules. 28/04/2022
Europe News Croatia one step closer to joining Schengen free movement area EU governments have concluded that Zagreb is able to ensure the security of the bloc's external border, a highly sensitive topic amid renewed concerns over migration. 09/12/2021
Travel News Wave goodbye to passport stamps in EU border overhaul Visitors will need to swipe in and out of the EU next year as it looks to tighten up on security and people outstaying their visas. 17/11/2021
Europe News EU border agency Frontex failing to fulfil its duties, say auditors It raises questions about whether the agency should have had its budget and responsibilities expanded to such an extent. 07/06/2021
state of the union Europe's week: COVID pass, Schengen, Hungary and corruption fight These stories were centre stage in Brussels this week. 04/06/2021
Europe News Brussels unveils plans to reform borderless Schengen Area The European Commission wants to improve the management of the external borders and also strengthen cooperation among Schengen states. 02/06/2021
Travel News Italy, Germany tighten rules for EU travel amid third wave of pandemic Italy plans to introduce a five-day quarantine for travellers from EU countries, while Germany will strengthen border checks. 30/03/2021
Uncovering Europe A decade after talks began, is Romania any closer to joining Schengen? A European Union member since 2007, Romania still isn't a member of Europe's borderless zone. Why not? 26/03/2021
Uncovering Europe Will COVID-19 spark reform of the EU's borderless Schengen Area? Euronews looks at recent border restrictions prompted by coronavirus variants and what they mean for the future of free movement in Europe. 02/03/2021
Europe News Macron seeks Schengen changes as part of terrorism fight French President Emmanuel Macron wants to reform the Schengen area as part of a fighting extremism after a fresh wave of terrorist attacks. 12/11/2020
Europe News European leaders lay out fresh plans to fight religious extremism In the wake of a spate of terrorist attacks in Europe in recent weeks, European leaders set out plans to tackle the problem on Tuesday. 10/11/2020
France Macron calls for Europe to fight terrorism with stronger border security The French president says he is doubling the number of security personnel on France's own borders. And he wants the Schengen rules to be reformed. 05/11/2020
Europe News Saving Schengen: Germany grapples with COVID crisis border closures The coronavirus pandemic has seen many EU countries closing borders, potentially misapplying the rules of the Schengen visa-free travel area. Berlin is proposing new ways of keeping Europe's borders open while assuaging concerns over health and safety. 03/09/2020
Europe News Coronavirus reopens Schengen debate for Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria Long queues at borders have become a feature of travelling within the EU during the pandemic, but Romanian MEPs say it highlights the reality of travel from non-Schengen member states. 20/05/2020
the global conversation Coronavirus: no ''mini-Schengens", warns EU Commission VP European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas talks to the Global Conversation about the future of Europe's border-free travel Schengen zone and what European solidarity should look like once Europe comes out of the coronavirus crisis. 20/05/2020
Europe News Coronavirus: EU Commission VP warns against 'mini-Schengens' Margaritis Schinas' comments come after Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania opened their internal borders to each other last week in a bid to give their economies a timely boost. 19/05/2020
View The EU cannot afford to keep Romania in quarantine when it reopens the Schengen zone ǀ View Any postponement of Romania's full entry into the Schengen Area is no longer technical, but a political decision about what Europe means and what Europe is. 18/05/2020
world news Germany reopens border with Luxembourg in meeting on Schengen Bridge In a symbolic meeting on Schengen Bridge, the foreign ministers of Germany and Luxembourg removed measures put in place to contain COVID-19. 17/05/2020
View Schengen isn’t dead – yet. The real test will be dismantling border controls again ǀ View The actual resilience of Schengen will only become apparent later, once border checks need to be lifted again. Past experience has shown, time and again, that lifting controls can be hard, certainly harder than re-introducing them. 03/04/2020
View We urgently need a coordinated European response to coronavirus. We are seeing the opposite ǀ View As a record number of citizens, including the most Eurosceptic, turn to the EU in search of emergency solutions, Brussels looks helpless. But who’s really to blame for the current situation? 19/03/2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina 'Ashamed' European rights chief demands closure of Bosnia camp “This is not a place for human beings,” said Dunja Mijatovic, Council of Europe rights commissioner as she visited the Vucjak camp. “It should be closed." 03/12/2019
Croatia Migrant shot by Croatian police in mountains near Slovenian border Human Rights Watch called on European authorities to investigate the "shocking and unacceptable" shooting, which left the migrant critically wounded. 18/11/2019
Good Morning Europe European Council on Refugees blames Greece for islands migrant crisis The Director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles has said the migrant crisis in Greece is the direct result of EU policy Catherine Woollard’s comments to Euronews’ Good Morning Europe came as the migrant issue in Greece and Bosnia was being discussed by the European Parliament 14/11/2019
