On Thursday 7 December, the Estonian home affairs minister, Andres Anvelt, reported that the home affairs ministers of the member states had had an animated and fairly emotional exchange of views on the future of the Schengen zone at their Home Affairs Council. Over lunch, the ministers were called upon to take position on the state of the area of free movement, between the control measures recently applied by certain member states and the draft amendment to the Schengen Code proposed by the...