
Border checks on train passengers aimed at curbing the number of asylum seekers entering Sweden from Denmark will cost Denmark’s rail operator nearly 1 million Danish crowns (99,370 pounds) a day, the state-owned company said on Tuesday. Travellers have been
by Reuters30 Dec 2015, 7:31 AM PST0

Brussels is becoming less democratic and more monolithic by the week. At a time when 76 per cent of EU citizens believe corruption is widespread across the European Union, why is Britain giving away our personal and financial data? We
by Chris Muspratt18 Dec 2015, 6:08 AM PST0

Up to 70 suspected radical Islamists have had their security passes revoked at Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports in wake of the terrorists attacks on the French capital last month which killed 130 people. The contents of around 4,000 workers’
by Simon Kent14 Dec 2015, 2:12 AM PST0

In a move said to represent the biggest transfer of national sovereignty since the creation of the single currency, the European Union is to propose a standing European border force able to take control of the bloc’s external frontiers even when a
by Sarkis Zeronian11 Dec 2015, 11:23 AM PST0

Angela Merkel may have won praise from the world for Germany’s open-door policy on refugees, but a confused and divided Europe is feeling the fallout from the decision, analysts said. The German chancellor’s sudden move in early September to welcome
by AFP11 Dec 2015, 2:00 AM PST0

The leader of Belgium’s biggest political party has called for the closure of the European Unions’s external borders and greater efforts to achieve controlled migration, warning that “unbridled immigration” does not work. Bart De Wever, the leader of the centre-right Flemish
by Sarkis Zeronian8 Dec 2015, 7:22 AM PST0

BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union is at risk of falling apart and supporters must fight to keep it, the head of the European Parliament said in a German newspaper interview. Martin Schulz (pictured above, centre) told Die Welt’s Tuesday
by Reuters8 Dec 2015, 1:31 AM PST0

BRUSSELS/IDOMENI – Greece asked for European help on Thursday to secure its borders and care for crowds of migrants, defusing threats from EU allies to bar it from the passport-free Schengen zone if it failed to get a grip. Hours
by Reuters4 Dec 2015, 2:28 AM PST0

What a change a few months make. Earlier this year Angela Merkel, the Puppet-Master of Europe, took the unprecedented step of suspending the Dublin II accord by welcoming an unlimited number of Syrians to Germany. Several months later and under intense
by Christopher Carter1 Dec 2015, 12:40 AM PST0

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Turkey promised to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck on Sunday that the Turkish prime minister called a “new
by Reuters30 Nov 2015, 1:43 AM PST0

Europe must work to keep the dream of the passport-free Schengen zone alive, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders (pictured above) said Wednesday, adding it would be a priority for his country as it takes over the EU presidency. The Netherlands holds
by AFP26 Nov 2015, 1:53 AM PST0

This is geopolitical chaos theory in practice. Every day the European Union (EU) changes direction on how it will cope with hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for a new life in Europe. Border fences go
by Simon Kent8 Oct 2015, 6:06 AM PST0

From Reuters: Concerned about security threats and illegal migration, some European governments are considering amending the Schengen border code, which eliminated systematic frontier controls across much of Europe. A week after passengers subdued a gunman on an Amsterdam-Paris express, interior
by Sarkis Zeronian29 Aug 2015, 2:05 AM PST0

Europe’s most senior unelected official is proud of a borderless EU. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, believes the Schengen area of 26 countries that have removed all shared checkpoints was ‘one of our very greatest achievements’. As more European leaders
by Simon Kent25 Aug 2015, 3:54 AM PST0

The future of the Schengen zone, a borderless area stretching across much of mainland Europe, is in doubt following the gun attack on a train in France last Friday. Politicians from across northern Europe questioned whether the arrangement can be
by Donna Rachel Edmunds24 Aug 2015, 10:08 AM PST0

Thousands of migrants have stormed across Macedonia’s southern border with Greece just days after the Macedonian government closed the border and declared a state of emergency. Police lobbed stun grenades and hit some of the infiltrators with batons, but were
by Donna Rachel Edmunds23 Aug 2015, 4:25 AM PST0