EU’s Schengen area under threat
Flooded with more than one million refugees, several Schengen area member states have imposed border controls (source: macpixxel for GIS)
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What's inside
- Estimates of long-term economic costs of abandoning the Schengen area vary, but are certain to be disastrously high
- Loss of Schengen could be a mortal blow to the euro
- To salvage the control-free zone, leaders in Brussels need to fall back on the EU’s core values
Who will benefit?
- Report is targeted to the decision makers in cross country manufacturing – suppliers, manufacturers, logistics.
- Also considered useful for the administrative university facilities, to better understand the possibe effects of current decisions.
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