The EU’s member countries, including the UK, collectively control the EU’s external borders through their own management of their national borders. The British government retains full control over its own border controls. That matters for two reasons. Brexit means that the UK’s only land border will also be an external border from the EU’s point of view. The European Union plans to prolong until July 1 a ban on most travel in and out of the bloc as member nations first remove internal border controls triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. One is immigration and the other is trade in goods, neither of which have many controls on them within the EU. But … Effective external border control essential for free movement within the Schengen area Over the last three years, the EU has agreed on several measures to strengthen control of its external borders.

The European Union plans to prolong until July 1 a ban on most travel in and out of the bloc as member nations first remove internal border controls triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The European Union is considering a plan to introduce a permanent external border control force that could be deployed if it deems that a member state is in need of help to police its frontiers even without the EU country’s consent, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (11 December).. Sweden is in the EU, Norway isn't. The Catalogue consists of two main parts, one on External Border Control and one on Return and Readmission. EU border agency FRONTEX, which has been in existence since 2004, was designed for intelligence gathering and risk analysis, and its regulations explicitly state that the responsibility for control and surveillance of the external border lies with the member states. Frontex promotes, coordinates and develops European border management in line with the EU fundamental rights charter applying the concept of Integrated Border Management.

The EU’s external borders are to remain closed to non-essential travel until at least mid-June.

With more than three weeks since the European Commission and the European Council agreed to seal off the external borders of the EU and the Schengen Area, the end of the pandemic Coronavirus is nowhere in sight.

T he European Union will deploy 10,000 armed border guards to tackle unlawful migration by 2020, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced in a speech on Wednesday.. Closing the EU border in just one country would be ineffective in stemming the flow of the virus from non-EU countries. First of all let's head north - to the border between Norway and Sweden. The European Union on Wednesday pushed to reopen internal borders and restart travel within the 27-country bloc in time for the summer tourism season. Effective external border control essential for free movement within the Schengen area Over the last three years, the EU has agreed on several measures to strengthen control of its external borders. Controls at the UK border. This is followed by a series of recommendations and best A general section describes the basic concepts underlying the policy and ongoing developments at European Union level. The Finnish Presidency supports actions aimed at ensuring the effective control of the EU’s external borders while also safeguarding the freedom of movement.