United We Don’t Stand: Restricting Schengen Area Threatens Fabric of EU
SputnikNews.com
20.01.2016
The suspension of the Schengen Agreement may deal a tremendous blow to the European Union, possibly causing Europe to revert to its pre-EU state of affairs.
Europe is likely to seek to preserve the Schengen Agreement by attempting to stop the flow of migrants at the EU’s outer borders, according to Milan Igrutinovic, an analyst at the Institute of European Studies.
“Even though Schengen came into effect only in 1995, the EU as a political union is unthinkable without it. If it gets abolished, Europe would revert to the European Economic Community of the 1970s or 1980s,” Igrutinovic told Sputnik.
“It would be a different kind of Europe – weaker as a community, much less attractive and lacking a strong international influence.”
According to Igrutinovic, in order to preserve the current state of affairs, EU officials are likely to attempt to strengthen border controls, especially in the Mediterranean.
“They’ll try to beef up the border control in the Mediterranean region: at the Greek islands, at the border with Turkey. The question is, however, will it work?” he remarked.
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