http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180109-144711 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/30-days-six-months-forever-border-control-and-the-french-council-of-state/ 30 days, six months… forever? Border control and the French Council of State Platon, Sébastien eng 2018-01-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 border control Conseil d'Etat Schengen Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 For Christmas 2017, the French Council of State – the Supreme Court for administrative matters in France – gave a nasty present to those attached to the free movement of persons in the Schengen area. In a ruling issued on 28 December (see here, in French), it upheld the decision of the French Government to reintroduce, for the ninth time in a row, identity control at its “internal” borders, i.e. borders with other Schengen countries – even though checks at internal borders are not, in fact, systematically performed. This decision, issued without even bringing the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling, sets aside, probably unlawfully, the time limit set by the Schengen Borders Code.