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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.
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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.
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Euroviews. 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.
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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.
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Euroviews. 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.