The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, announced on Friday 13 March guidelines for coordinating Member States’ action in re-establishing controls at internal borders within the Schengen area of free movement of persons.
Following a meeting of EU interior ministers at which nine of them did not physically participate, Johansson explained that these internal controls, which are reappearing as a result of the spread of COVID-19, must remain “coordinated, effective and...