Schengen

Following the Vienna meeting earlier this week between Austria and 9 Balkan states to discuss ways to tackle the migrant crisis, the governments of most of the countries that took part in the controversial meeting that caused much anger...

Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation released a report today that says that the collapse of the Schengen area could cost the European Union economy up to 1.4 trillion euros over the next decade. Employing a worse case scenario in which the reintroduction...

The Greek government has asked to have an explicit commitment from Europe’s leaders that the borders will not be sealed off prior to the emergency EU summit meeting on March 6. The focus of this summit will be the...

Greece's Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that if the plan of the Visegrad states -- the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia -- goes through and Balkan countries seal off their borders, his country would end up facing “a...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that the pursuit of a common strategy for the management of EU’s external borders and the protection of the Schengen agreement will be the focus of the EU summit, which begins tomorrow in Brussels. Speaking...

Virtually since the start of Europe’s refugee crisis, the Visegrad states have adopted a posture on the issue that is antithetical to Europe’s values and poses a real threat to European integration. The Visegrad group consists of Poland, the Czech...

The leaders of Germany, France and other European Union countries will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu prior to the start of the February 18 European Council summit to discuss the migration crisis. European government officials are concerned over...

For the last few months, European Union (EU) authorities have maintained a rather schizophrenic approach to Greece with regard to the management of the migration crisis. With over 850,000 people having landed on Greece’s shores alone this past year, EU...

As Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis continues with no end in sight, the voices against Greece for alleged failure to fulfill its border obligations under the Schengen agreement seem to grow louder with every passing day. At the forefront of...

The European Commission has told Greece that it has three months to remedy “deficiencies” in controlling the influx of migrants or face border controls with the rest of the Schengen passport-free zone. This latest threat, in the form of a...