Eight Schengen Nations Keep Border Checks Active Into 2027

If you are mapping out a multi-country European trip, those quick passport flashes at internal borders aren’t disappearing anytime soon. Five months after the European Commission told a group of member states to start phasing out temporary border restrictions, seven of the eight nations running them have already locked in extensions that stretch deep into 2027.

Only the Netherlands has let its controls lapse, dropping them at the end of September. Italy and Spain also wrapped up the tit-for-tat flight and ferry checks they started after the Ceuta crisis. But for the rest, checkpoints remain a permanent fixture of regional travel.

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Country	Controls until	Borders covered
Austria	15 March 2027	Land and river borders with Slovakia; land borders with Czechia, Hungary and Slovenia
Denmark	11 May 2027	Land and sea borders with Germany
France	30 April 2027	All internal borders (land, air and sea) with Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain and Italy
Germany	15 March 2027	Land borders with France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Poland
Italy	18 December 2026	Land border with Slovenia
Norway	11 May 2027	Ports with ferry connections to the Schengen area
Poland	30 March 2027	Land borders with Germany and Lithuania
Sweden	11 May 2027	All internal borders (land, air and sea), and the land border with Denmark

The exact scope of these checks varies wildly depending on where you travel. France and Sweden have cast the widest nets, policing every single internal border, including flights arriving from other Schengen destinations. Germany has similarly locked down all nine of its land borders.

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Other governments keep their operations much narrower. Poland restricts its checks strictly to the borders shared with Germany and Lithuania. Italy watches only its boundary with Slovenia, and its current mandate expires on 18 December 2026 without an extension on the books yet. Norway focuses entirely on ports linking to Schengen ferry routes, meaning a driver crossing the land border from Sweden avoids those specific checks entirely.

For some countries, these temporary measures have dragged on for years. Germany, Austria, and Sweden have kept checks running without a break since the autumn of 2015, while Denmark has maintained them since January 2016. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden filed their latest batch of renewals together, securing six-month mandates running from 12 November 2026 through 11 May 2027.