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9 September 2022 Secrets of the council

Dismantling Schengen – half a year at a time

By Sigrid Melchior, Pascal Hansens, Nico Schmidt, Amund Trellevik and Ingeborg Eliassen

Several EU nations have circumvented the free movement agreement by using near-constant internal border checks. Now, an EU Court has deemed such policies to be illegal. What next for Schengen? Read more "Dismantling Schengen – half a year at a time"

18 February 2022 Derailed

“The only thing I can say is good luck”: How trains abolished by Switzerland are now back in business in Greece

By Eurydice Bersi

The Italian railways, which operates in Greece, is launching five ETR 470 trains on the Athens-Thessaloniki route, despite its dubious safety record. Read more "“The only thing I can say is good luck”: How trains abolished by Switzerland are now back in business in Greece"

6 December 2021 Derailed

The Iberian rail odyssey

By Paulo Pena, Carlos Cipriano and Manuel Rico

High speed train connections between Lisbon and Madrid were suspended in 2020. When that happened previously, it was because of the Spanish Civil War and two World Wars. How then does one travel by train between these two cities? We took not one, but four trains from Lisbon to Madrid. It took … Read more "The Iberian rail odyssey"