{"id":4178,"date":"2020-02-28T13:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2020-02-28T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:44:48","slug":"commission-urges-removal-of-border-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4178","title":{"rendered":"Commission urges removal of border controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><figcaption>\n<p>German police search migrants and refugees arriving from Austria at a processing center in Passau | Johannes Simon\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Commission urges removal of border controls<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Ryan Collins<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\">3\/2\/16, 10:59 AM CET<\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated 3\/2\/16, 6:59 PM CET<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>The European Commission is encouraging EU member countries\u00a0to remove border controls by the year&#8217;s end to preserve the Union&#8217;s &#8220;crowning achievement&#8221; of passport-free travel, according to a draft report obtained by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the influx of more than 1 million refugees and migrants, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, currently seven European countries have reinstated border checks, suspending the Schengen agreement that allows passport-free travel between 26 European nations.<\/p>\n<p>These controls &#8220;place into question the proper functioning of the Schengen area of free movement,&#8221; according to the report that will be published Friday. The Commission wants them removed &#8220;as quickly as possible,&#8221; and by November at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>Stretching from Iceland to Greece and including all EU member countries except the U.K., Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Cyprus, Schengen is one of the cornerstones of the EU&#8217;s integration policy.\u00a0The Commission&#8217;s report urges member countries\u00a0to &#8220;pull together in the common interest to safeguard one of the Union\u2019s crowning achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-frag-list layout-linear article-in-this-section article-section-remove\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Ryan Collins<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German police search migrants and refugees arriving from Austria at a processing center in Passau | Johannes Simon\/AFP via Getty Commission urges removal of border controls By Ryan Collins 3\/2\/16, 10:59 AM CET Updated 3\/2\/16, 6:59 PM CET The European Commission is encouraging EU member countries\u00a0to remove border controls by the year&#8217;s end to preserve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}