Press Release: Travelling without borders: Commission proposes stronger monitoring of respect of Schengen rules

In the EU, citizens can travel without border controls within the Schengen area. But obstacles to the free movement, such as maintenance of obstacles to fluid traffic flow at road crossing-points at internal borders, remain because Schengen rules are not always correctly applied by the Member States. That is why the Commission wants to verify more closely the respect of the Schengen rules. A new proposal adopted today by the Commission seeks to strengthen the mechanism for evaluating the correct application of the Schengen rules in the Member States. It will allow the Commission to better verify the relevant legislation on the abolition of controls at internal borders and to do more effective checks within national territory.

European Commission: Memo/10/564: Schengen: some basic facts http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/564&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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