With E.U. states like Germany,
Austria and Poland becoming increasingly active in patrolling their respective
borders at the expense of the Schengen Agreement, it makes sense that the proposed
E.U. budget announced in July, 2025 includes more money to protect the E.U.’s
borders from illegal crossings. This is important because reinstituting controls
on the borders of states contributes toward the visual of the E.U. coming apart
geographically. Such a set-back may be worse for the E.U. than the secession of
Britain was; in fact, letting that state go arguably strengthened the Union
because the British government consistently refused to admit that the E.U. is
more than a network of countries that the UK happened to belong to, which was
the view of the former governor, David Cameron.
The full essay is at "The E.U.'s Borders Held Hostage by the State Veto."
