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Last year, we explained Europe's Schengen free travel area in plain English, then published maps of which European countries had temporarily reintroduced border controls as of March 2016, August 2016, and February 2017. Here's an update and summary for August of 2017.
Article by Evan Centanni
Current Border Controls Between Schengen Countries
As anyone who's visited Europe in recent decades knows, much of the continent is linked together as part of the "
Schengen Area", a collection of countries that don't make travelers show any ID to cross back and forth across their borders (though this system is overseen by the European Union, the
Schengen Area and the EU aren't the same thing). But the system does allow countries to
temporarily reintroduce border controls under certain circumstances.
