European countries ask to stop Schengen

LONDON - 15 September 2017: France and Germany are demanding the right to suspend the European Union’s passport-free travel zone for up to four years at times of crisis amid fears over terrorism and migration, a report said on Friday.

A confidential diplomatic paper seen by The Times reveals that the EU’s two biggest countries are pushing for the Schengen zone to be suspended in “exceptional circumstances”, making all travelers subject to border checks as they enter a country.

Under the border-check proposals, which are also supported by the Schengen members Austria, Denmark and Norway, governments would be allowed to introduce frontier controls for years rather than months and to keep their reasons for the checks secret.

The Schengen visa allows the people to move freely across the European borders without showing their passports, this, however, does not apply to UK or Ireland.