nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211011-181754-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211011s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211011-181754-0 doi eng 342 23 Cebulak, Pola Author aut The Writing is on the Wall - Proportionality of Border Controls within the Schengen Area Cebulak, Pola Verfassungsblog 2021-10-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 6 October 2021, Advocate General (AG) Saugmandsgaard Øe published his Opinion in the joined cases C-368/20 NW v Landespolizeidirektion Steiermark and C-369/20 NW v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Leibnitz. Six Schengen countries (Germany, France, Austria, Denmark, Norway and Sweden) have reintroduced border controls over the past years. If the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) were to follow the AG’s Opinion, they would need to seriously rethink their practices in this regard. New evidence-based procedures and serious reasons, capable of passing a proportionality test, would be necessary to introduce border controls within the Schengen Zone. CC BY-SA 4.0 Advocate General border control Schengen Morvillo, Marta Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-writing-is-on-the-wall/ raw object