The EU Ministers for Home Affairs took note, on Thursday 9 December, of the progress report prepared by the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council on the revision of the Schengen area evaluation mechanism, presented in June and which aims to strengthen the monitoring and surveillance pillars of Schengen governance(see EUROPE B12732A7).
The new mechanism should be able to identify significant deficiencies in a timely manner and to remedy them quickly by, inter alia, shortening procedural...