🎉 Today, the #ECJ celebrates 40 years of the #SchengenAgreement! Signed on 14 June 1985, it removed internal borders and paving the way for free movement across Europe. A landmark moment in European integration 🤝

📽️ Watch the @EU_Commission’s video to learn more 👇

💬 Want subtitles in your language? Click here to watch the video with subtitles available in all EU languages 👉 https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-273727

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#BorderControls on 3500+ km are unfeasible, would miss the target of preventing suspected terrorists coming to Germany, violate #SchengenAgreement , create unprecedented congestion and likely won't stop people from migrating but provocing new routes. Furthermore, a central European country, with mostly internal borders to nine neighbours should as a minimum discuss border issues with those neighbours instead of going solo. (mho)

further reading by @politico
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-olaf-scholz-europe-migration-far-right-afd-election/

It comes as a bitter realization that a lot of hard-fought-for progress can be wiped off the slate easily under the wrong circumstances.

Implementing right-wing policies like border controls does not make them any less right-wing by being implemented by a German left-to-center coalition trying to appeal to right-wing voters due to domestic power plays.
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#OnThisDay, 28 years ago, the #SchengenAgreement to create the #SchengenArea came into force. A symbol of free movement, the agreement was a milestone for European integration.

Find out more: 👉 https://europa.eu/!y7RrCh

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUPublications/status/1639900051106598912