Europe's Passport-Free Travel Strained as Sweden Sets Controls
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Refugees at Stockholm central mosque on Oct. 15, 2015.
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Europe’s system of passport-free travel came under pressure Thursday after Sweden became the fifth country to impose temporary border checks to keep out the rising tide of refugees.
Sweden called for an overhaul of the system, which makes inner-European travel like trips between U.S. states and is routinely hailed by European Union leaders as one of the greatest achievements of a continent without walls.