Schengen: The Point of No Return is Getting Closer and Closer

... was not marked by a celebration of the creation of a unique free movement zone. The celebratory mood was overshadowed by the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century in the European Union. Until recently, disputes arising between states within the European Union boiled down to how to build a pan-European policy, with refugees entering Germany, France and other western countries. Now the crisis is threatening the Schengen Area as a whole. Despite the fact that that Schengen Agreement was signed in 1985, its provisions only started to come into force ten years later, when border controls were scrapped at the internal borders of seven states. Once the remaining EU members (with the exception of the United Kingdom ...