Whatever happened to the Schengen crisis?

Whatever happened to the Schengen crisis?

Bulletin article
Hugo Brady
27 September 2013

EU ministers will put years of political wrangling behind them this autumn when they sign off a new set of rules for the Schengen area. The 26-country travel zone was tipped into political turmoil in 2011 when, during the Arab Spring, France temporarily re-imposed border controls with Italy over a trickle of Tunisian migrants crossing their shared frontier.

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