Tag: Dimitris Avramopoulos

• Monday, December 12th 2016 - 15:17 UTC

  Germany wants to extends unilateral border controls beyond EU's deadline

  

  As EU's Interior Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos declined an extension beyond February and pushed for things to go “back to Schengen,” Germany prepares to go ahead on its own to maintain the border controls in Bavaria for a longer period of time. Border controls between the Schengen countries are only acceptable as a time-limited exception to the rule of open borders. Better protected EU external borders should make the controls in the interior of Europe superfluous.