EU leaders meeting in Brussels today (12 February) called for increased use of existing cross-border co-operation tools to track terrorist fighters returning from fighting in Syria. But they stopped short of calling for a immediate revision of the EU’s Schengen Border Code.
Though today’s informal summit was originally supposed to talk about economic issues, the agenda was changed to a focus on counter-terrorism following the terrorist attacks in Paris last month. Interior ministers meeting in Paris and Riga over the past month had called for an immediate “targeted amendment” of the Schengen Border Code, which governs the EU’s passport-free area, in …read more
Source: European Voice
