The Diplomat. 26/01/2017
The European Commission has recommended that the Council allow Member States to maintain the temporary controls currently in place at certain internal borders of the Schengen area in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway for a further period of three months.
According to a communiqué issued by the European Commission office in Spain, “despite the gradual stabilization of the situation and the implementation of a series of measures proposed by the Commission to improve the management of external borders and protect the Schengen area, the Commission considers that the conditions of the roadmap for the re-establishment of Schengen, which will make it possible to return to normal operation, have not yet been fully implemented”.
