EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council: 15 of the EU's 27 Member States backed: EU consensus to revamp Schengen travel area (ebusiness, link): On the one hand: "There was a clear position from every minister:
EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council: 15 of the EU’s 27 Member States backed: EU consensus to revamp Schengen travel area (ebusiness, link): On the one hand:
“There was a clear position from every minister: the free movement of people is one of the Union’s key achievements and we have to maintain and safeguard this,” and on the other hand:
“to spell out a mechanism allowing a state to reopen border posts in case of a sudden surge in migration, or should another EU state be shown to be unable to control its frontier with non-EU nations.“