There was controls with Slovenia for a while in 2015 , I ' m pretty sure that wasn ' t agreed under Schengen . As I recall , Hungary tested the waters by putting a couple of portable obstacles on the Slovenian border , but dismantled them very quickly after seeing the reaction . It ' s unfair to paint Hungary as the country that disrespected the Scengen treaty based on that , considering Hungary went out of its way to protect the border and register the migrants . Not to mention it was Austria that since then has built stretches of fence along the AustrianHungarian inner Schengen border . And there was no penalty from the EU for that , either . Regarding the EU , the point still stands as it has no power to police borders and the more people spread false information about its role the less it can doWell , you are right . It ' s actually the Italian coast guard right now that is responsible for most of the ferry service into Europe . They bring the migrants onto European soil and then go to the EU demanding that the EU redistributes the migrants to other member states . The problem is , during all of these fruitless EU summits , they wasted the time on Germany and Italy demanding a migrant quota system , instead of thinking of ways to stop the migrants from coming here in the first place . The deal with Turkey was a passable temporary solution for a start , but Europe needs to find a permanent way to keep migrants out by itself , without relying on outside help . And that ' s a topic they failed to meaningfully address at the EU summits . And for that , the blame lies on both member states like Germany , and on the wannabe Zlist politicians that fill EU institutions .