European Commission Decision 2020/6/EU

Basis of the Case
As a result of the European migration crisis several member states of the European Union erected internal barriers inside of the Union and Schengen Area to prevent the movement. The Decision obliges the member states to remove these barriers that are still in place by the end of the year to which the European Commission has in the past expressed unhappiness over.

European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos stated that “the erection of these border points has already cost European states €20bn thanks to the suppression of cross-border economic transactions resulting from the delays created by the border points. We need to focus on protecting the EU’s external frontiers instead of our internal ones, anything less violates the integrity of the single market”.