Schengen Border Controls: Challenges and Policy Options

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Series Details June 2016
Publication Date June 2016
ISBN 978-92-823-9293-5
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Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This compilation paper revisits the Schengen set up including recent developments triggered by both the migration crisis and terrorism, and subsequently presents and qualifies expert estimates of the potential economic impact stemming from the introduction of ID-checks, including a case study on the key transport sector.

Estimates by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy point at a burden on EU citizens and firms of between €7 and €14bn for the entire EU. TML-Leuven assessed the cost for transport users of reinstating border controls in the entire Schengen area to amount between €2.5bn and €5bn annually (waiting times 10-20 minutes for passenger cars and 30-60 minutes for lorries).

Effects, however, could prove much more costly if e.g. fullfledged border controls are permanently re-introduced. This paper has been prepared by the Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).

Source Link Link to Main Source http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2861/489678
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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/
ESO: Background information: The future of Schengen http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-future-of-schengen/
ESO: Background information: The economic costs of non-Schengen: what the numbers tell us http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-economic-costs-of-non-schengen-what-the-numbers-tell-us/
European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, June 2016: Schengen Border Controls: Challenges and Policy Options http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/578990/IPOL_IDA(2016)578990_EN.pdf

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