The nine newest members of the European Union were celebrating on Friday after border controls officially were lifted, allowing them to move freely within the EU's passport-free zone. At midnight ...

Newsweek has analyzed the latest available data and the Open Borders Index to create a map ... Europe's Schengen Area is the primary example of a region where borders are relatively open among ...

Delays with SIS II had put off expansion until 2009 – a scenario which proved politically unacceptable to the new member states, except Cyprus, which has chosen to delay its entry into Schengen until ...

Please note that not all EU members fully apply the Schengen Agreement, but that some non-EU countries do apply it fully. Non-EU citizens living in one of the countries that do apply the agreement ...

These European initiatives are part of a series of measures to improve the external border management of Schengen Area Member States. These future automated systems aim to make Schengen Area external ...

The European Union is set to launch ... the ETIAS focuses on protecting the Schengen Area from external threats, while maintaining open borders between member states.