The Schengen Agreement : a milestone in European integration On 14 June 1985, five European countries – France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg – signed the Schengen Agreement, ...

The Schengen information system is celebrating 30 years of ensuring the free movement of people between the signatory ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -The European Union has eased rules for Turks to use its open-border Schengen area, the bloc's ambassador to Ankara said on Friday, calling for the urgent revival of negotiations ...

We have come together on the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Schengen Agreement to highlight our common commitment to Europe's security, building resilience and readiness for today’s challenges ...

The final approval for the admission of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen must be given by EU leaders at an EU summit taking place from December 19-20 in Brussels, but this is a mere formality, as ...

Final EU plans to take fingerprints and facial biometrics from British travellers to Europe have been revealed. The long-awaited “entry-exit system” (EES) will be rolled out over the course of 180 ...

Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can ...

But Schengen is a peculiar creation, in a way befitting our disorienting times. As I explore in my book, the agreement hardly envisioned unrestricted mobility.

Libya lifted a visa ban on citizens of 25 European countries on Saturday after EU president Spain said a Swiss-instigated visa blacklist against 188 Libyans in those countries had been scrapped.