
Belgium Reinstates Border Checks to Tackle Illegal Migration
The new controls target buses, flights, and key roads from France and Southern Europe, with permit holders urged to carry ID.

The new controls target buses, flights, and key roads from France and Southern Europe, with permit holders urged to carry ID.

Berlin was unable to send back any of the illegal migrants who originally crossed into the EU via Italy.

Increased land-border controls appear to be pushing smugglers and migrants toward air routes.

The Dutch migration ministry admitted that the practice has been going on for years, and often without any coordination with the local authorities.

Open-borders Europe is an asymmetric privilege for few, not a genuine freedom for all Europeans.

The Commission is using legal loopholes to institutionalise illegal migration—and erode the foundations of national control across Europe.
Conflicting statements from ministers, media and MPs have left the public unclear over a Gibraltar border deal that could see EU agents stationed on British soil.
Chief minister Fabian Picardo says talks are in their final stages, potentially tying the Rock closer to the EU than to post-Brexit Britain.
“Schengen must live!” Luxembourg’s interior minister commented, concerned about the impact on his country’s many cross-border commuters

Enlargement is set to be celebrated as one of the biggest achievements of the European Council’s Hungarian presidency—but random border checks will continue for at least six months.