Extending the Schengen area

Christine Fauvet-Mycia is far from enthusiastic about the new Schengen zone. "The fact is that the enlargement of the Schengen zone we are being thrown back into the debate that stirred up the French citizens and Europeans at large when the European Constitution Treaty was submitted to their judgement. It ended up in 2005 with a 'No' vote in France and the Netherlands. A 'no' to an ever-growing Europe that is endlessly stretching its boundaries, spreading without settling and affirming itself, without re-centering itself around what unites it and what it is based on... The EU is diluting itself more than it is reinforcing itself while the 'cordon sanitaire ' around the Schengen zone is thinning as it stretches."

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