08.07.2021
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Where three countries meet: Foreign Minister Maas is travelling to Schengen, Leidingen and Saarlouis
In theory, the borders in the Schengen area have been open since 1985. But the COVID-19 pandemic has upended this European normality: controls were temporarily reintroduced at many of the EU’s internal borders from March till June 2020, to curb the spread of the virus.