Schengen-area

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Thursday that Greece will use the European Union's Regulation 2016/399 and tighten up border controls in order to curb the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus. "From today, therefore, our country cites Regulation 2016/399 of...

The Republic of Cyprus has declared its readiness to become a member of the Schengen Area and is only awaiting its EU evaluation, Cyprus' Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides announced on Monday. Speaking before the House Committee on Finance, the Minister said...

British citizens heading to Greece are being advised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that additional checks will be in place for all EU citizens coming from outside the "Schengen area." Britain, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia are the only...

Internal border controls imposed by five Schengen-area countries will have to be extended by an additional six months as there are still some problems with the external borders, European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Wednesday. He noted that...

Greece has three months to get its act together on the question of border controls or face expulsion from the Schengen area, Greek media outlets of all types screamed over a draft report released earlier in the week by the European Commission...

European Council President Donald Tusk announced via his Twitter account on Thursday that he has convened an urgent European Union summit on the refugee crisis this upcoming Wednesday, September 23. The EU's Interior Ministers are scheduled to meet on September 22 to discuss how to...

The situation in Greece on the immigration front remains "very difficult" and "will be on the EU agenda for some time," the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom, has said after a meeting in Brussels today with Greece's...