{"id":4280,"date":"2020-03-05T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:09:29","slug":"juncker-not-going-to-give-up-on-schengen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4280","title":{"rendered":"Juncker &#8216;not going to give up on Schengen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><figcaption>\n<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker  | Pablo Blazquez Dominguez\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Juncker &#8216;not going to give up on Schengen&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Commission president and German finance minister united in support of border-free travel area.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Paul Dallison<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\">1\/15\/16, 5:41 PM CET<\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated 1\/15\/16, 5:50 PM CET<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Europe is in serious trouble if the Schengen zone of passport-free travel collapses, senior EU politicians warned Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said Schengen was one of the \u201cbiggest achievements of the European integration process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Brussels at his first full press conference of 2016, Juncker said: &#8220;Less Schengen means less employment, less economic growth.\u00a0Without Schengen, without the free movement of workers, without freedom of European citizens to travel, the euro makes no sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Reaffirming the Commission&#8217;s determination to do everything necessary to maintain the Schengen area, the Commission\u00a0president highlighted the costs of nixing\u00a0Schengen, saying:\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Waiting at an internal border would cost every lorry \u20ac55 for every hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to give up [on Schengen], I reject the idea that this is somehow the beginning of an end,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Juncker&#8217;s view was echoed later Friday by Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble, Germany&#8217;s powerful finance minister.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a meeting of EU finance ministers, Sch\u00e4uble warned that Schengen was \u201cclose\u201d to failing and the EU would face a \u201ctremendous, enormous\u201d threat if Germany was forced to reintroduce border controls, as other EU states have done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can only avoid such a development if we solve the problems quicker, through better and more effective protection of the external borders and through more and more intensive support and cooperation,\u201d Sch\u00e4uble\u00a0said. \u201cFor that we will need a lot more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EU member countries have been split over the future of Schengen in the wake of the migration crisis, with border controls being reintroduced across the bloc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Paul Dallison<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"credits-email\"><b class=\"icon icon-mail\"><\/b> pdallison@politico.eu&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker | Pablo Blazquez Dominguez\/Getty Juncker &#8216;not going to give up on Schengen&#8217; Commission president and German finance minister united in support of border-free travel area. 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