{"id":929,"date":"2026-02-10T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/929\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:28:27","slug":"europeans-want-brussels-to-hand-border-control-back-to-capitals-poll-finds-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/929\/","title":{"rendered":"Europeans want Brussels to hand border control back to capitals, poll finds \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secondary movements aren\u2019t a Schengen problem, he argued \u2014 they only mean that the bloc needs to cooperate better and strengthen controls on its external borders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe illegal migration does not take place between Luxembourg and Germany,\u201d Gloden said.<\/p>\n<p>The small country has lodged a complaint against migration-linked checks on Germany\u2019s borders, which have landed the thousands of commuters that enter Luxembourg on a daily basis in major traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>When the Schengen zone was built, it was \u201cnot linked to migration \u2026 [It] should facilitate the free movement of people, not hinder [it],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>FGS interviewed 11,714 adults from 23 European Union countries between Nov. 10 and Nov. 23, 2025. A minimum of 500 interviews were conducted in each of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Interviews were conducted online and the data was weighted to be nationally representative of each country by gender, age, income, region and socio-economic group. Data from a nationally representative poll of 500 adults is accurate to a margin of error of +\/- 4.4 percent at 95 percent confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secondary movements aren\u2019t a Schengen problem, he argued \u2014 they only mean that the bloc needs to cooperate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,993,18,934,172,324,994,288,995,996,997,998,116],"class_list":{"0":"post-929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-cyprus","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-greece","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-luxembourg","16":"tag-magnus-brunner","17":"tag-migration","18":"tag-schengen-area","19":"tag-schengen-zone","20":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}