Suspend Schengen to Rescue Europe

The author writes that it was time in March 2016 for the European Union to suspend the Schengen Agreement. To hold on to the myth that the EU’s arrangement of passport-free travel continues to work amounts to self-denial. Several European countries have already reimposed border controls to quell or restrict the flow of refugees and migrants.

Poor intelligence sharing, insufficient external border controls, and the lack of a proper EU-wide asylum and migration policy have undermined Schengen. It has become a free-for-all.

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

ESO: Background information: Schengen in crisis as Belgium reintroduces border controls http://www.europeansources.info/record/schengen-in-crisis-as-belgium-reintroduces-border-controls/

ESO: Background information: For Europe, an end to Schengen could mean a dramatic decline in growth http://www.europeansources.info/record/for-europe-an-end-to-schengen-could-mean-a-dramatic-decline-in-growth/

ESO: Background information: The Schengen Area [What Think Tanks Are Thinking], February 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-schengen-area-what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

ESO: Background information: Austria moves to ‘plan B’, defies EU-wide solution to refugee crisis / Austrian cap on asylum-seekers infuriates Commission http://www.europeansources.info/record/austria-moves-to-plan-b-defies-eu-wide-solution-to-refugee-crisis-austrian-cap-on-asylum-seekers-infuriates-commission/

Chatham House: Expert Comment, 26.02.16: A Schengen ‘Grexit’ Would Not Solve the EU’s Refugee Crisis https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/schengen-grexit-would-not-solve-eu-s-refugee-crisis

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