Parliament condemned the continuation of internal border checks in the Schengen area in a report adopted on 30 May 2018.

In a report on the functioning of the Schengen zone MEPs warn that the passport-free area is under "enormous pressure". Report author Carlos Coelho, a Portuguese member of the EPP group, said: “National governments made Schengen into the scapegoat of the failures of security policies and of the weakness of common European asylum system. Yet, Schengen is not the problem, it is the solution.”

Coelho warned that rhetoric of blaming free movement could destroy the unique Schengen system: “If Schengen perishes, the Europe of citizens that we have today will vanish.”