Bidding Goodbye to Schengen

Bidding Goodbye to Schengen

The brutal truth is that most of the people crossing from Turkey into Greece, including the Syrians and Afghans who come from war-torn countries, are “asylum-shoppers.” They were already safe in Turkey, which is sheltering almost 2 million Syrian refugees and spending billions of dollars a year on them. But life in the camps in Turkey is hard, so they are moving on to seek asylum in richer countries with better facilities. There is no obligation for Europe to take them all, and the Schengen treaty will die if it does. But the EU itself will soldier on without it, at least until and unless the euro currency collapses when the next recession hits.

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