Meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday 13 June, the interior ministers of the EU27, accompanied by the Schengen associated countries, debated the state of health of the free movement area, but in the end were unable to approve the Political Declaration on Schengen envisaged for its 40th anniversary.
Faced with opposition from two Member States - Austria and Romania, according to one source - particularly over the language of certain parts of the Declaration, the Belgian Presidency of the...