EU policies

Much has changed since France, Germany and the Benelux member states first agreed to create a border free zone on 14 June 1985. But the the protests against discriminations and racism in Europe remind us that some barriers are still up in the people’s minds.

The EU pays 75 percent of the cost to governments that repatriate their citizens through the EU aid mechanism due to the coronavirus epidemic. Tens of thousands of EU citizens have returned home this way.

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the founding act of European construction, on the 9th of May, we spoke with the president of the Schuman Foundation to discuss the state of this process and his perspectives.