Security and Schengen’s open borders: A picture of increasing threat with matching drive for reform

In early 2022, Europeans woke to three potentially dire security threats to them and their way of life: more conflict in insecurity in Ukraine, increasing hybrid warfare and cyber attacks, and the possibility of new arrivals of refugees and migrants following the military withdrawal in Afghanistan and the resumption of power by the Taliban. The fifth episode the European Commission’s podcast Europe Calling series tackles these security challenges and the pressing Reform of Schengen rules, with Vice-President Margaritis Schinas, responsible for Promoting the European Way of Life.