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European Union To Extend Schengen Border Controls For 3 Months: Commission
The EU should prolong border controls in the passport-free Schengen area for another three months as the bloc is still working on steps to deal with the migrant crisis, the European Commission said Wednesday.
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European Union To Host Schengen Talks With Sweden, Denmark
The European Union (EU) said it will host emergency talks on Wednesday with Denmark, Sweden and Germany about new migrant border checks that have sparked fresh concerns about Europe's Schengen passport-free zone.
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European Union Ministers to Discuss Border Controls After Paris Attacks
EU ministers hold emergency talks today on tightening border checks after the killing of the ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital raised troubling questions about the bloc's security.
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Austria to Build Fence on Slovenia Border in New Blow to Schengen Pact
In a new blow to the EU's cherished open-border Schengen accord, Austria announced today it would erect a 3.7-kilometre (2.3-mile) metal fence along its border with Slovenia to better manage a record influx of migrants and refugees.
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European Union's Tusk Says Europe Must do Everything to Preserve Schengen Zone
The European Union must do all it can to keep its Schengen zone of passport-free travel intact through proper management of the bloc's external borders, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
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France Urges European Union Members to 'Scrupulously' Respect Schengen Rules
France on Sunday called for the "scrupulous respect by all European Union countries" of rules setting out the bloc's borderless Schengen zone as Germany reinstated border checks in the face of a record influx of refugees.
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European Union Frowns on Hungarian Border Fence Against Migrants
The EU said today that Hungary's building of a fence to keep out migrants was not an effective way of halting the tide of humanity washing up on Europe's borders.
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European Union Anti-Terror Chief Says Very Young Europeans Joining Islamic State
The Islamic State group is recruiting a growing number of very young men and women from Europe despite battlefield setbacks, EU counter-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove has told AFP.
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Paris Attacks: Spain Wants to Change Schengen Rules to Thwart Islamist Returnees
Spain wants to see the Schengen treaty modified to allow border controls to be restored to limit the movements of Islamic fighters returning to Europe from the Middle East, a report said on Sunday.
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Sarkozy threatens French pullout of visa-free zone
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to pull France out of the European Union's coveted visa-free Schengen zone unless the bloc makes progress on protecting EU borders from illegal immigration.
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European Union To Extend Schengen Border Controls For 3 Months: Commission
The EU should prolong border controls in the passport-free Schengen area for another three months as the bloc is still working on steps to deal with the migrant crisis, the European Commission said Wednesday.
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European Union To Host Schengen Talks With Sweden, Denmark
The European Union (EU) said it will host emergency talks on Wednesday with Denmark, Sweden and Germany about new migrant border checks that have sparked fresh concerns about Europe's Schengen passport-free zone.
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European Union Ministers to Discuss Border Controls After Paris Attacks
EU ministers hold emergency talks today on tightening border checks after the killing of the ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital raised troubling questions about the bloc's security.
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Austria to Build Fence on Slovenia Border in New Blow to Schengen Pact
In a new blow to the EU's cherished open-border Schengen accord, Austria announced today it would erect a 3.7-kilometre (2.3-mile) metal fence along its border with Slovenia to better manage a record influx of migrants and refugees.
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European Union's Tusk Says Europe Must do Everything to Preserve Schengen Zone
The European Union must do all it can to keep its Schengen zone of passport-free travel intact through proper management of the bloc's external borders, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
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France Urges European Union Members to 'Scrupulously' Respect Schengen Rules
France on Sunday called for the "scrupulous respect by all European Union countries" of rules setting out the bloc's borderless Schengen zone as Germany reinstated border checks in the face of a record influx of refugees.
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European Union Frowns on Hungarian Border Fence Against Migrants
The EU said today that Hungary's building of a fence to keep out migrants was not an effective way of halting the tide of humanity washing up on Europe's borders.
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European Union Anti-Terror Chief Says Very Young Europeans Joining Islamic State
The Islamic State group is recruiting a growing number of very young men and women from Europe despite battlefield setbacks, EU counter-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove has told AFP.
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Paris Attacks: Spain Wants to Change Schengen Rules to Thwart Islamist Returnees
Spain wants to see the Schengen treaty modified to allow border controls to be restored to limit the movements of Islamic fighters returning to Europe from the Middle East, a report said on Sunday.
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Sarkozy threatens French pullout of visa-free zone
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to pull France out of the European Union's coveted visa-free Schengen zone unless the bloc makes progress on protecting EU borders from illegal immigration.
