The European Union will reportedly bar travellers from the United States while allowing people from China to enter the bloc after lifting Chinese coronavirus travel restrictions, a report from the New York Times claimed on Tuesday.
The European Commission is set to present a plan in Brussels on removing border controls within the visa-free Schengen zone.
The 25th anniversary of the open-border Schengen agreement is set to take place this year as most European Union member states have closed their borders due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
The president of the European Commission admitted that leaders in the EU “underestimated” the scale of the coronavirus outbreak, as the bloc has closed its external borders to foreign travellers.
The French PM warned that if the UK doesn’t enact stricter coronavirus measures, Britons will be banned from travelling to the country.
The president of the European Commission called for borders to remain open within the EU’s Free Movement travel zone during the COVID-19 outbreak, as countries across the bloc enact border controls.
Angela Merkel was accused of spreading panic after she claimed that up to 70% of German residents could become infected with the coronavirus.
The EU will not impose border controls to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, despite hundreds of cases being confirmed in Italy.
Reforms to the European Union’s Dublin agreement could see countries that do not accept migrants banned from the Schengen passport-free zone, according to claims from a Greek newspaper.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered preparations to be made to end free movement of people with the European Union when Britain is due to leave the bloc on October 31st. Recently appointed by incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
The chief of Sweden’s National Border Police has sounded the alarm on the ability of his force to do its job — even to the low standard required by the European Union under its Schengen zone open borders agreement.
EU lawmakers say convenient travel without ID checks inside Europe’s passport-free Schengen area could be a thing of the past if countries keep prolonging controls on European citizens.
Germany and Denmark have both elected to continue emergency border controls that were first instated during the migrant crisis for a further six months.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says border checks within the European Union won’t disappear “as long as order and security can’t be guaranteed.”
BERLIN (AP) – The German government says it will extend passport controls along some of its national borders for another six months starting in November. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in a written statement Thursday that the authorities
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border police have detained 21 Iraqi migrants hiding in a corn field near the Hungarian border who say they were trying to reach the visa-free Schengen travel zone.
Hungary is set to introduce plans to detain all migrants entering the country until their asylum applications have been fully processed – a move the government says it expects will go off “like a bomb” in Brussels.
Intelligence services in Italy believe that the country faces an imminent threat from Islamic State fighters based in Albania, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — UK Independence Party members of the European Parliament who were in Brussels at the time of Tuesday’s terror attacks have said the atrocity may precipitate the death of Europe’s prized borderless zone. Speaking to Breitbart London, UKIP
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