{"id":31887,"date":"2015-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/activity\/gia-ti-zoni-sengken-grafei-o-dr-thanos-ntokos-sto-carnegie-europe\/"},"modified":"2015-09-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:00:00","slug":"gia-ti-zoni-sengken-grafei-o-dr-thanos-ntokos-sto-carnegie-europe","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/activity\/gia-ti-zoni-sengken-grafei-o-dr-thanos-ntokos-sto-carnegie-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Thanos Dokos analyses whether Schengen Area is viable on Carnegie Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23307\" alt=\"flag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/flag.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>The euro and the Schengen zone have been two of the EU\u2019s most tangible and widely recognizable achievements. Now, both are faced with considerable, even existential, challenges. The concept of a border-free Europe is being tested by the evolving migration and refugee crisis, with an extremely high number of people from Syria and other conflict regions trying to cross into European countries (mainly Greece and Italy) in an attempt to seek asylum in their final destination country in Northern Europe. The limited enthusiasm of most EU states\u2014with the notable exceptions of Germany and Sweden\u2014to undertake any commitments in the context of a burden-sharing agreement promoted by the European Commission is once more testing the limits of European solidarity and the idea of common European policies.<\/p>\n<p>  An additional concern about radical individuals entering Europe disguised as refugees complicates the situation even further at a time of increasing radicalization of societies in some EU countries and rising xenophobia or Islamophobia in others. Schengen, and the whole European experiment, will soon be dead unless Europeans act on the basis of the assumption that \u201cwe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d In the meantime, the fighting in Syria should stop. Talk to the Iranians and the Russians ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Dr Thanos Dokos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <a title=\"This article was published on Carnegie Europe website.\" href=\"http:\/\/carnegieeurope.eu\/strategiceurope\/?fa=61105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>This article was published on Carnegie Europe website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":31884,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/31887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=31887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}