European Commission Announces New Proposal for National Border Controls

It seems that the pressure that France and Italy has been putting on the European Commission to change up its national border controls is starting to pay off. In fact, in response to this growing pressure, the European Commission is set to announce its new proposal on Wednesday of this week.

The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said that national authorities could be given greater leeway to play with the Schengen regime. He then said that national passport controls might have to be reintroduced across Europe. This would allow a temporary re-erection of borders between 25 countries.

Either way, the European Commission did admit that they are looking at different ways to satisfy the two countries' concerns with border security. After all, if these two countries are alarmed at the influx of migrants fleeing to their country due to the revolution in north Africa, then they need to look into the matter.

The current system that is in place, the Schengen system, was first introduced way back in 1995. This system pretty much abolished frontier checks between 22 different European Union countries. Of course, Britain and Ireland are not part of this system. This is because these two areas insisted on handling their own national border controls.

Overall, there are some countries that are looking forward to this upcoming change, and there are some that are not. Some countries have nothing to report on the matter until all of the details are out later this week. Until then, most are simply going to go with the flow of change.