The Schengen area lets more than 450 million people move between member countries without internal border checks. Here is how it works, which countries belong, and how its external borders are protected.
A proposed youth mobility scheme between the UK and the EU has reopened debate about Brexit and the opportunities lost to younger people. Here is what such a scheme would involve and why it divides opinion.
Brexit stripped British citizens of automatic free movement across the EU. In response, a rising number of young Britons are tracing their family trees to reclaim a second passport and, with it, the right to live, work and travel freely in Europe.
Five years after the UK formally left the European Union, the effects span trade, immigration and money – but for travellers, the biggest changes are at the border, with new passport rules and the EES and ETIAS on the way.
Five years after the UK formally left the European Union, the effects are visible across trade, migration, travel, laws and public finances. Here is a clear look at what has changed, with a closer focus on what it means at the border.
Over two days in Brussels, EU justice and home affairs ministers tackled drug trafficking, migrant smuggling and the future of Europe's border databases, with the EES and ETIAS rollout firmly in view.