brussels bureau Truck traffic wait times down, but room for improvement When borders began to close in Europe, trucks transporting essential goods were caught in massive traffic jams. The EU's 'green lanes' scheme to keep transport moving have shown improvements in wait times, but in some hot spots times are far off the 15 minute target. 03/04/2020
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
Turkey Greece latest: Lesbos residents try to stop migrants from disembarking The events came following an announcement by Turkey that it would open its border with Europe. 29/02/2020
View Anti-immigrant policies are bad for America. Trump's chief of staff admitted it ǀ View This administration curtailed legal immigration in addition to its efforts against undocumented people. Now it bemoans that people don't want to move here. 25/02/2020
Greece Greek PM tightens migrant controls: 'We are not an unfenced vineyard' Greece is to create a single border surveillance agency and employ 1,200 more guards to 'shut the door' on migrants not entitled to stay. 22/11/2019
state of the union 1989: Europe and the wall In this special edition of State of the Union, we took out the red sofa to ask people about their thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we speak to an MEP who lived through it as a young girl and look at the business of new walls in Europe. 08/11/2019
futuris Discover the spray used by Belgian police to train specialist dogs at airports Explosives training has always been a dangerous undertaking for security workers, but a special substance is designed to make officials and passengers safe 28/10/2019
Germany What is 'secondary migration' and how do Germany plan to control it? German police are to intensify border checks to stop non-EU migrants from illegally crossing into the country, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Sunday. 30/09/2019
United Kingdom UK Border Force find 60 guns in car arriving in Dover from Calais Britain's National Crime Agency said the find is believed to be "the largest seizure of lethal purpose weapons at a UK port." 04/08/2019
Austria Austria extends duration of border checks for Hungary and Slovenia Austria cited an increase of migrants numbers as a reason to extend border checks. 07/04/2019
View Automated technologies at EU borders and the future of Fortress Europe ǀ View The deployment of new technologies [...] to automate EU border security systems, raises multiple human rights concerns. While the past and present human rights implications of Fortress Europe have been widely catalogued, future ones [...], urgently need addressing. 27/03/2019
Ireland Irish border: Can technology remove the need for a backstop? We've taken a look at the Sweden-Norway border to see if technology can help solve the Brexit deadlock. 05/02/2019
United Kingdom UK police arrest two men for suspected migrant smuggling A 33-year-old Iranian national and 24-year-old British man were arrested in Manchester on Wednesday. 03/01/2019
View The Brexit backstop is Northern Ireland's insurance policy | View The opposition to the backstop on the benches of Westminster has been a stark reminder of how Northern Ireland is almost always an afterthought in British politics. 24/12/2018
Poland Polish border authorities deny entry to UN climate change participants Polish border authorities deny entry to UN Climate Change talks participants 09/12/2018
United Kingdom Lack of UK Border Force vessels exposes British coastlines “Two cutters for the whole coastline is frankly ridiculous. We need more investment so the whole border is secure,” MP Charlie Elphicke told Euronews. 20/11/2018
USA US Judge blocks President Trump's proposed asylum ban US District Judge Jon Tigar blocked the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. 20/11/2018
no comment Thousands of people stuck between Guatemala and Mexico They're part of a caravan of thousands of people determined to make it to the United States. Now they are stuck on a bridge over a river that marks the border 20/10/2018
world news Avatar passport controls at airports The avatar technology hopes to help police guard borders in a pilot scheme which starts next month and can apparently tell if someone is lying 20/10/2018
brussels bureau Brexit & Gibraltar: the Rock and a hard place Every day, some eight thousand Spaniards cross the border between Spain and Gibraltar to work on the rock ... By car, on foot, by bicycle ... Now they are worried about Brexit. 17/10/2018
France France readies for no-deal Brexit, to give Britons reciprocal rights France seeks a "reciprocal" arrangement with the UK as the Brexit deadline looms. 04/10/2018
Venezuela Venezuela: exodus of migrants heading towards a "crisis moment" That's according to the United Nations migration agency. Peru has tightened its border controls as Venezuelans flee over the high inflation nearly reaching 1 million percent 25/08/2018
Unreported Europe Germany toughens approach on migrants as EU struggles for unity In this edition of Insiders Euronews examines how migration continues to top the European agenda and exposes Europe’s fault lines, even if a deal was reached in late June to toughen border controls and beef up repatriation procedures of migrants non-eligible for asylum. 27/07/2018
Unreported Europe Lack of trust among member states undermines EU migration deal Lack of trust among member states undermines EU migration deal 27/07/2018
Unreported Europe Bavaria tightens borders amid German rethink on migrants As Germany grapples with divisions over migration, Bavaria takes action to stem the flow through the country's southern border 27/07/2018
Germany Germany to hold migrants in detention centres on Austria border To save her government Chancellor Angela Merkel capitulates and agrees to detention camps for migrants on the Austria border. 05/07/2018
