Schengen
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See also: schéngen
English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Schengen
- A town in southeastern Luxembourg
- (politics) The Schengen Agreement: a treaty between countries in continental Europe abolishing mutual border controls and standardizing visa policy.
- 2004, Imelda Higgins, Kay Hailbronner, Migration and Asylum Law and Policy in the European Union: FIDE 2004 National Reports, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 135:
- As is the case for the other Member States participating in Schengen, Greece issues, on the one hand, Schengen uniform visas, and on the other, national long-stay visas for stays exceeding three months.
- The Schengen Area; the area over which the Schengen Agreement applies.
- 2013, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign policy considerations for the UK and Scotland in the event of Scotland becoming an independent country: sixth report of session 2012-13, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, Stationery Office →ISBN, page 8
- One of the requirements in Schengen, quite practically, is that you have configure airports so that you can separate out your air travellers from those who are travelling within Schengen and those who are not.
- 2016, Andrea de Guttry, Francesca Capone, Christophe Paulussen, Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN, page 310:
- Risk indicators avoid the need for checks of police databases for all persons entering Schengen
- Sat 4 May 2024 , Geneva Abdul and Kim Willsher, The Guardian
- a spokesperson told Le Monde: “When it’s a question of a Schengen refuse, the border police can’t do much about it.”
- 2013, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign policy considerations for the UK and Scotland in the event of Scotland becoming an independent country: sixth report of session 2012-13, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, Stationery Office →ISBN, page 8
Derived terms
Translations
city in Luxembourg
Finnish
Etymology
From Luxembourgish Schengen.
Pronunciation
Noun
Schengen
- Schengen (a town in Luxembourg)
- short for Schengenin sopimus, the Schengen Agreement
Declension
- In Schengen = Schengenissä (inessive case)
| Inflection of Schengen (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Schengen | — | |
| genitive | Schengenin | — | |
| partitive | Schengeniä | — | |
| illative | Schengeniin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Schengen | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Schengen | — |
| gen. | Schengenin | ||
| genitive | Schengenin | — | |
| partitive | Schengeniä | — | |
| inessive | Schengenissä | — | |
| elative | Schengenistä | — | |
| illative | Schengeniin | — | |
| adessive | Schengenillä | — | |
| ablative | Schengeniltä | — | |
| allative | Schengenille | — | |
| essive | Schengeninä | — | |
| translative | Schengeniksi | — | |
| abessive | Schengenittä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Schengen.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Schengen m
- (politics) Schengen (the Schengen Agreement)
- (European politics) Schengen, Schengen Area (the area over which the Schengen Agreement applies)
- Synonym: espaço Schengen