Extension of Schengen Internal Border Controls Urged By Six EU States

The European Commission received a proposal by six of the European Union member states for temporary proposal of the internal borders of the Schengen zone, aiming to monitor the migration flow in a better and more efficient way. The six countries (Austria and Belgium, France and Denmark, Germany and Sweden) called on the Commission to make a proposal to the European Council to introduce controls at the internal borders of Schengen as of mid-May for a period of six months.

These border checks are only temporary, unless a moment comes when the European Commission finds the free-travel area of EU being at a risk, due to the country’s failure to protect the external borders of the area. The number of the migrants that are reaching western and central Europe has been reduced as the Western Balkan migration route has been cut and refugees have been sent back to Greece and Turkey.