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Schengen will hold. But the outer borders of the union and the balkans will be militarized beyond belief.
by venomsnake 11y ago
Schengen will hold. But the outer borders of the union and the balkans will be militarized beyond belief.
- jacquesm 11y agoIt is already changing. Give it a few weeks. Sweden and Hungary have already put border controls back in place, France will likely do as well as a result of this attack at least for the foreseeable future. After that - and coupled with the immense increase of cross-border crime in the last decade - it will be a fairly easy step to rescind Schengen, if not in name then at least in spirit or on a 'temporary' basis. It's the easiest way out of a lot of the current problems and it is a lot cheaper than militarizing the Balkans which has other side-effects that are mostly undesirable.
- venomsnake 11y agoBorder controls are one thing. Freedom of movements is another. Being forced to flash id card at the border is not the same as the border officer being able to refuse entry to a legal EU citizen.
- jacquesm 11y agoTrue, but that means long lines waiting at the borders between countries again (hours for citizens, days for trucks). The damage would be enormous.
- anigbrowl 11y agoI'm not cool with flashing ID. Could you imagine being in the US and having to go through checkpoints every time you crossed a state border?
- selimthegrim 11y agoYou've never seen the ag inspection stations at California border crossings, or the Border Patrol posts near the NM/TX line?
- dragonwriter 11y ago> You've never seen the ag inspection stations at California border crossings, or the Border Patrol posts near the NM/TX line? The latter has nothing essential to do with the NM/TX border, there are border patrol checkpoints (including mobile ones) in a pretty wide swath "near" the Mexican border. They don't exist to enforce any kind of control on state borders.