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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.

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.

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.

World

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.

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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.

Romania

Euroviews. 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.

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.

World News

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.

Economy

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?

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."

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.

World

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

World News

Western Balkan leaders plot their own 'mini-Schengen' zone

After Albania and North Macedonia had their EU accession bid vetoed weeks ago, Western Balkan leaders have met to discuss their own free transit zone.

World

Croatia and the Schengen zone: find out how the country will protect its borders

Global Conversation talked to the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic to discuss the country's achievements, the next challenges, but also the challenges of the wider region.

World News

Europe's free travel zone is set to widen — what are the implications?

What does Schengen expansion mean for Europe, and can the EU overcome its border policy crisis triggered by the migrant influx that began in 2014?

Europe News

Croatia en route to join Schengen

Countries and MEPs are divided as Croatia passes next step in Schengen process.

Kosovo

Euroviews. Kosovo’s fate in the Western Balkans will determine the future stability of Europe | View

Eleven years after the declaration of independence, four major European countries still do not recognise Kosovo as a country, which remains an obstacle to its efforts to integrate into European and world organisations.

World News

How is travel access to some EU countries changing? | Euronews answers

The European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) is a visa waiver pre-screening program for all travelers under the EU visa-free program, that want to enter any of the EU countries. Its main purpose is the protection and strengthening of the EU external borders.

Germany

German coach travel border checks are illegal, ECJ rules

The European Court of Justice rules German coach travel border checks are illegal and in contravention of the Schengen Agreement.

Europe News

Golden Visas: 'It's a prostitution of Schengen'

Transparency International's latest report claims that in the last 10 years, the EU has welcomed thousands of new citizens and close to 100,000 new residents through the Golden Visas scheme. Spain, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal and the UK have granted the highest number of golden visas.