Border

The Austrian government has specified five prerequisites for potentially lifting checks at Schengen land borders for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens, as detailed in a statement released after the European Council's decision to open air and sea borders for both countries on December 29.

It is pointless for anyone to try to illegal cross the borders

I don't know whether that stands true for all the history of the world, but I know that 20th-century Europe's often painful history can be observed through the lens of borders.

The Greek authorities are always on alert at both land and sea borders to prevent illegal entry into the country

The European borders are being secured

The border police in Bors has caught 30 foreigners who were attempting to illegally cross the border with Hungary hidden in a lorry. On Saturday, around 2.00 pm, at the Bors Border Crossing Point, a Turkish citizen showed up for the formalities, on the way out of the country, driving a lorry registered in Turkey.

European borders seem to be closing again, Deutsche Welle writes.

Frontex notes that the number of detections of illegal border crossings along the EU’s external borders fell 13% last year to around 124,000

The European Commission has encouraged all internal border restrictions to be lifted as of today, but a relatively small number of countries have announced that they will reopen fully and without restrictions.

Germany plans to lift a travel ban for European Union member states plus Britain, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland from 15 June provided coronavirus infection levels in those countries allow it to do so, government sources said.

A further condition is that the countries concerned open their borders to holidaymakers, the sources said.