nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/97c46bb5fcf13997 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260622s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/97c46bb5fcf13997 doi eng 342 23 Züllig, Leon Author aut At Germany’s Service - The European Commission’s Opinion on the Proportionality of German Border Controls Züllig, Leon Verfassungsblog 2026-06-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Over eleven years, Schengen has been dying by a thousand cuts. Internal border controls – meant as exceptional, time-limited measures – have proliferated since 2015, with refugees pushed back at borders once meant to be open. After years of deafening silence, there is now finally a sign of life from the Commission: on 2 June 2026, it issued an opinion on the necessity and proportionality of border controls under the new Art. 27a(3) Schengen Borders Code. However, the opinion does little to remedy Schengen's worrying condition – and reveals a troubling vision of its future. CC BY-SA 4.0 Salomon, Stefan Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-1668-4737 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/commission-border-controls/ raw object