Passport-free area faces being suspended for two years, as senior diplomat says of refugee influx: ‘This cannot continue’ EU governments have placed a large question mark over the future of Europe’s passport-free travel zone, signalling an extension of national border controls within the 26-country Schengen area in response to the immigration crisis. As Europe scrambled to put together a coherent answer to the biggest challenge the union has ever faced, EU interior ministers meeting in Amsterdam on Monday compounded a sense of gloom and confusion in the face of ever rising numbers of people heading into Greece from Turkey. Continue reading...
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