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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11475
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

Interior ministers confirm they want to be able to extend controls by two years in Schengen area

Amsterdam, 25/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Amsterdam for their first meeting of the year, interior ministers from the EU member states (more particularly, those from the Schengen area) called on the European Commission to prepare a legal analysis of the possibilities for extending member states' internal border controls and subsequently activating Article 26 of the Schengen Border Code.

This possibility had already been mentioned by ministers at the beginning of December, during...