Actually, border controls within the Schengen area are no longer provided – however, it has been in use for some time. EU Commissioner for Migration, looks Avramopoulos for no reason.
Dimitris Avramopoulos has called on Germany and four other EU countries, the border controls to lift the internal borders of the Schengen area. To exist “if the Schengen stops, Europe will die,” said the EU Commissioner for Migration and home Affairs in Washington.
“So we can’t do more.” As for the Schengen area, the EU Commissioner, he was not willing to grant further permits for border controls. “The Schengen area must return to its normal function.” It was “to believe a very naive approach” that border controls, more security guarantees could be, the former mayor of Athens.
Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for Migration, home
“Latent Threat”
Germany controlled its border with Austria since the autumn of 2015, after tens of thousands of refugees and other migrants from Greece via the so-called Balkan Route on to Western Europe. Finally, the controls were extended to the end of 2018 to may of this year.
Austria is to maintain its controls to Hungary and Slovenia, at least until November, as Minister of the interior, Herbert Kickl announced recently. There are still too many illegal migrants, and a “latent threat of terrorism,” wrote the politician of the right-wing FPÖ in a letter to the EU Commission. France, Denmark and Norway take local checks at its Internal Schengen borders. Overall, the Schengen area includes 22 EU and four neighbouring countries.
“Normal”
The five States had reasons for the controls – but the reasons are now in place, stressed EU Commissioner Avramopoulos. The number of illegal border crossings was reduced after the refugee crisis at the normal level. The European refugee policy is not working.
wa/se (dpa)