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EU seeks new rules on internal border checks

"The European Commission is working on revising rules that allow EU states to impose internal border controls and checks throughout the passport-free Schengen area. Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, told reporters in Brussels
"The European Commission is working on revising rules that allow EU states to impose internal border controls and checks throughout the passport-free Schengen area. Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, told reporters in Brussels

“The European Commission is working on revising rules that allow EU states to impose internal border controls and checks throughout the passport-free Schengen area.

Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration, told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday (6 September) that a proposal will soon be put forward to reform the so-called Schengen Borders Code.

“Very soon we shall be in a position to present our proposals,” he said. One EU commission official noted that a possible option for the reform would be to allow the states to use terrorism, and not migration flows, as a basis for internal controls. “

See: EU seeks new rules on internal border checks (euobserver, link):