“The man, who had been barred from the European Union’s border-free Schengen area,” was arrested in Germany nonetheless. That shows how effectively such bans have been enforced. Meanwhile, I have long delays at airports every time I check in now, while authorities verify that I am not traveling to the UK — while jihadists freely […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Schengenland And Its Discontents
After World War II, under the leadership of the French statesmen Jean Monnet and others, European governments were determined to find ways to bind their countries together in ways that might prevent the 20th century catastrophes from being repeated. Their first effort, not unnaturally, was to create in 1951 the European Coal and Steel Community, […]