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Countries across Europe have been breaking from Schengen with border checks springing up across the EU.<\/p>\n
The Schengen area is now dotted with border restrictions as checkpoints and ID screening are implemented by border agencies in response to growing instability and terror threats.<\/p>\n
According to an EU report, the new controls have been brought in by governments to combat the risk of ‘infiltration’ by extremists posing as migrants from the Middle East.<\/p>\n
The Italian Government for instance has brought in checks along the border with Slovenia citing the Hamas-Israel conflict.<\/p>\n
Likewise, Slovenia has declared additional checks on the borders with Hungary and Croatia threats pointing to concerns for “public order and internal security”.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> New EU farming laws could see price of a supermarket chicken cost \u20ac20<\/strong><\/p>\n The tighter border regulations are a far cry from the passport-free travel vision set out by the EU under the Schengen treaty.<\/p>\n Migration expert Alberto-Horst Neidhardt told Mail Online that stricter border measures demonstrated “the fragility of the Schengen zone”.<\/p>\n The Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies analyst noted: “Large numbers of migrants arriving in southern Europe move freely across the continent to countries such as Germany, which saw a sharp rise in asylum applications to a quarter of a million last year.”<\/p>\n The French government meanwhile has brought in checks at all its internal EU borders with the justification that the French public is seeking “decisions in a Europe surrounded by unstable lands”.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said: “To speak of [controlling] immigration is to speak of our sovereignty… deciding ourselves those we want to welcome, and those we want to separate from”.<\/p>\n Croatian leader Plenkovic has also recently championed stricter borders within the bloc<\/p>\n He said: “The EU is surrounded by a series of very big crises… bigger than any time in the past 30 years.<\/p>\n “We have Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, Hamas’s attack on Israel, all this in the context of intensified flows of illegal migration.”<\/p>\n
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