On Monday 16 June in Strasbourg, the European Parliament’s political groups celebrated in their own way the 40th anniversary of the Schengen area (see EUROPE B13659A4). They were divided between those who wanted to adapt the area of free movement to current problems, such as hybrid threats, crime and irregular migratory flows, and did not condemn the internal controls carried out by a dozen or so countries, and those who regretted, on the contrary, the loss of the founding idea of...