SCHENGEN ZONE CONTINUES TO FRAY UNDER PRESSURE OF REFUGEE CRISIS
February 1st, 2016
THE BORDER-free European Union (EU) Schengen zone has continued to weaken, with the European Union (EU) telling the Greek government to boost its border controls or face additional checks on passengers travelling to and from Greece. Reporting on how Greece had dealt with migrants from Turkey, many escaping Syria’s war, the European Commission, concluded there was “no effective identification and registration of irregular migrants and that fingerprints are not being systematically entered into the system and travel documents are not being systematically ...
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