Relevant:
- Europe's free travel will end unless Turkey halts migrant flow, officials say
- Germany wants to extend border controls for another 6 months
- EU leaders consider two-year suspension of Schengen rules
- Asselborn: Suspension of Schengen means 'it will never come back'
- The Trucker's Nightmare That Could Flatten Europe's Economy
2015-11-26 — wsj.com
"If the spirit of Schengen leaves us...we'll lose more than the Schengen agreement. A single currency doesn't make sense if Schengen fails," he said. "You must know that Schengen is not a neutral concept. It's not banal. It's one of the main pillars of the construction of Europe."
...
In theory, the reintroduction of border controls wouldn't directly threaten the single currency zone. While it could slow trade across the bloc, the euro's vital underpinnings--free capital flows, freedom of labor movement and the bloc's single market of goods and services--would remain intact.
source article |
permalink |
discuss |
subscribe by:
|
RSS |
email 
Comments: Be the first to add a comment
add a comment | go to forum thread
Note: Comments may take a few minutes to show up on this page. If you go to the forum thread, however, you can see them immediately.
