The MEP who chairs the EU's border-free Schengen zone working group says the UK needs to be cut off from a major EU police and security database.
"The UK cannot have access to the Schengen Information System," according to Tanja Fajon, a socialist MEP from Slovenia who chairs the LIBE Working Group on Schengen Scrutiny, on Monday (7 December).
This system is used by police and border guards across the Schengen zone of 27 European countries and contains data on missing persons, sto...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.