The End Of Open Borders Within The EU

The Telegraph: The EU's €110bn problem: slow death of Schengen risks new crisis for Europe's battered economies

One of EU's harshest critics calls on Brussels to preserve passport-free travel at all costs to stop the continent from descending into economic turmoil.

The collapse of the Schengen system of open borders risks plunging Europe into fresh economic turmoil, Hungary’s foreign minister has warned.

Europe’s escalating migration crisis - which saw over a million people pour into the continent last year - has led to the re-introduction of temporary border controls in the EU for the first time time in two decades, threatening to reverse one of Brussels’ landmark integration projects.

A full blown dismantling of the borderless zone - where people and trade can move without restriction between 26 countries - would cause “unforeseeable damage” to continent’s beleaguered economies, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister has said.

“If the Schengen zone is going to be demolished or destroyed, then it will cause such serious economic damage that I don’t know how Europe is going to handle it", Mr Szijjarto told The Telegraph.

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WNU Editor: Predictions are that the flow of refugees will be a minimal five times greater in 2016 than in 2015. If the EU is fragmenting right now .... one can only imagine what it will look like at the end of the year. And while German Chancellor Merkel thinks that going to Turkey will stop the flow .... Merkel Returns to Turkey as Syria Offensive Brings More Refugees (Bloomberg), the reality is that Turkey does not care .... they will just take the money and continue to let these migrants through.