Schengen’s Border Test: The Data Behind Europe’s Return Push
A source-led investigation into Schengen’s temporary internal border checks and the EU’s evolving return framework. We compare Eurostat’s 2025 orders-to-leave and returns totals without treating them as a matched cohort; examine Germany’s notified border checks through 15 March 2027; explain Eurodac’s age-six biometric rules in specified migration procedures; and check the status of Return Regulation file 2025/0059/COD. EUR-Lex lists the file as ongoing, so its proposed measures are described as proposals—not enacted law. The episode also separates broad Pact implementation support from any…
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