Exceptions Become the Rule: Internal Border Control Checks in the Schengen Area
Exceptions Become the Rule: Internal Border Control Checks in the Schengen Area

Author(s): Jolanta Szymańska
Subject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Schengen Area; mass-migration crisis; border protection system; European asylum system; internal borders;
Summary/Abstract: The mass-migration crisis has exposed the weaknesses of the border protection system in Europe, encouraging Schengen member states to restore control over the zone’s internal borders. Checks inside the zone, which had been rare, are becoming the new normal. Moreover, Schengen member states are demanding a further loosening of the rules. Without clear progress in strengthening the EU’s external borders and finding compromise on reform of the common European asylum system, the Schengen zone is threatened with fragmentation. That carries a risk to Poland’s interests.

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