Rethinking Schengen: President Macron after the recent Terror attacks

French President Emmanuel Macron said the European Union would study how to reform its free-movement Schengen area in order to assure security in response to a series of terror attacks in France in Austria in recent weeks. Last Thursday, November 5, Emmanuel Macron announced the strengthening of all his border controls in order to address the threat of Jihadist terrorism, illegal trafficking and irregular immigration. This measure to combat the exogenous terrorist threat complements those already implemented by Macron’s government in recent months to put an end to the endogenous, that is, national, terrorist threat. The measures to put an…