Temporary border checks/Schengen countries

I would not be surprised at frequent id checks of passports. I doubt if it would lead to more passport stamps. That is old technology.

One page on your passport can be used for many stamps, not one stamp per page, so unless your trip takes you across many, many border crossings and many passport control situations, extra pages would not be necessary.

More likely scanning you passport to check for known terrorists and tracking everybody's movements.

Hi Caroline -- the French government had already, even before today's attacks in Brussels, extended the national state of emergency to May 26.

Yes, they could stamp your passport more often, because they have re-introduced border controls (at least in France), but not to the extent that you would need to add pages to your passport, I would imagine (how many times are you coming in and out??). Four stamps can fit on one page. Sometimes more.

Thank you, everyone, for your quick replies. I'll happily cross "more passport pages" off my to-do list!

Caroline

Likely the checks will be just that, checks and not formal border crossings. In the not so old days it was common when travelling on trains that at the last stop before a border, officials would get on, walk through and look at passports, then get off at the first stop across the border. Drive through crossings were more hit or miss, busier ones with a check, the odd back road no checks. In the end...sorry, no more stamps, but maybe a caution that for anything more than a walk around the neighborhood, I would suggest carrying your passport with you as opposed to leaving it at the Hotel.