ASSESSMENTS

Europe Rethinks the Schengen Agreement

Sep 2, 2015 | 09:16 GMT

Migrants board a train to Munich at Vienna's Westbahnhof railway station early Sept. 1.
Migrants board a train to Munich at Vienna's Westbahnhof railway station in the early hours of Sept. 1.

(JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

The Schengen Agreement was implemented in the 1990s, when the end of the Cold War and the prospect of permanent economic prosperity led EU members to give up national sovereignty in many sensitive areas. But much has changed since, and EU members are beginning to question many of the decisions made during the preceding years of optimism....

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