US Edition40th Anniversary of Schengen Agreement: 'Many Have Forgotten What Schengen Represents', Laments Juncker
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Schengen at 40: When ‘Anywheres’ Celebrate a Technocratic Luxury
When five Western European states signed the Schengen Agreement in June 1985, they launched what would later be hailed as a doctrine in European integration: the gradual abolition of internal border controls. Forty years later, Schengen has become a sacred pillar of the EU’s borderless ideal and a showcase of supranational governance. But Schengen’s reality is far more nuanced than its myth. For all its celebration in Brussels circles these days…
40th anniversary of Schengen Agreement: 'Many have forgotten what Schengen represents', laments Juncker
Former Luxembourg PM and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker spoke with historian and journalist Christoph Driessen about the current state and future of Europe at Neumünster Abbey this Friday.
On Saturday 14 June, during the 40th anniversary of the Schengen area, a hundred young people gathered in spite of the warmth in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to scander together at Don't touch my Schengen.What about the issue of border control, while the debates within the institutions persist, young Europeans do not wait: they commit themselves.What about this commitment? Is there really a young European with new values?A dist…
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