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Council agrees on temporary internal border controls that do not exceed a year as opposed to the three years initially proposed by Commission

Brussels, 19/06/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 19 June, representatives from the member states managed to reach an agreement on a negotiating mandate for reforming the Schengen Border Code, proposed last September by the European Commission at the request of certain countries, particularly by France and Germany.

The text approved and prepared by the Bulgarian Presidency sought to provide some clarity between the different articles in the Schengen Code that allow for the reintroduction of controls, for example, in the event of...