German Chancellor Frederick Merz praised the Schengen Agreement on Saturday, which led to the removal of internal borders between most European Union member states to allow free movement within the block.
Saturday marks 40 years after the agreement was signed.
“The Schengen Agreement is unique, the foundation of our free Europe. It must be like this: we want a strong European internal market without restrictions,” Mars said on X.
“This requires safe exterior borders, implementation of new migration rules and effective cooperation,” he said.
The Chancellor, who took over last month, has shut down the growing immigrant spirit in his country and a far-flung movement in recent years, to shut down on irregular migration in Germany.
Germany has restored police control over roads and railways with its several borders.
In a ceremony, which marks the 40th anniversary of the Schengen Agreement in Shengen, Luxembourg, Alexander Schwitzer, head of the German state of Rhinland-Palettenan, said that the recent checks placed by the federal government should not be permanent.
“They do not agree as a permanent remedy, they are not designed to be permanent,” Alexander Shwitzer said about the boundary check.
The Schengen agreement was signed in 1985 by Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Netherlands. Today, some 29 countries with around 420 million inhabitants belong to border and customs-free sector.
“Schengen is a historical achievement of today’s Europe,” said Shwitzer. Hey said, “We should not throw Europe and what we have achieved like a child with bath water in Europe,” he said, while he emphasizes that he was “not opposed to local, temporary, well proper limit controls.”
