On 12 February 1992, as the German Government passes the bill to ratify the Schengen Agreements, Rudolph Seiters, German Interior Minister, emphasises the political impact of the Agreements.

Le 16 septembre 1998 à Königswinter, le Comité exécutif des États signataires des accords de Schengen décide de la création d'une Commission permanente d'évaluation et d'application de Schengen.

On 7 October 1995, in an address to the French National Assembly, Michel Barnier, French Minister Delegate for European Affairs, emphasises the implications of the application of the Schengen Agreements.

Signed on 19 June 1990 by Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Schengen Agreement defines the rules governing the conditions for the free movement of persons within the European Community.

On 28 April 1995, as the Schengen Agreement is signed by Austria, the Vienna daily newspaper Die Presse welcomes the principle of the opening of the borders as laid down in the Agreement but is more pessimistic as regards its application.

On 6 April 1995, the European Parliament adopts a resolution on the impact of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement on asylum policy and emphasises that the free movement of persons is an integral part of the internal market and of the objectives of the European Union.

On 25 March 1995, at the French-Italian border crossing in Menton, supporters of the extreme-right French National Front demonstrate against the entry into force, the following day, of the Schengen Agreement which, they fear, will have repercussions on the French labour market.

On 27 November 1990, in Paris, Italy signs the Agreement of Accession to the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders signed in Schengen, Luxembourg, on 14 June 1985 by the representatives of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

On 27 March 1995, the British daily newspaper The Guardian comments on the entry into force of the Schengen Convention of 19 June 1990 in Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

On 14 June 1985, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Junior Foreign Minister, welcomes the signing, the same day in Schengen, of the agreement on the gradual abolition of controls at the common borders between Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands.