Lifting Border-closures in Europe: More Coordination, Less National Go-it-Alones
Author(s): Julian Kamasa
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2020
Julian Kamasa writes that managing the supply of essential goods and the flow of seasonal workers during the corona crisis is challenging many European states. A coordinated approach towards lifting border closures is required in response. Kamasa contends that a gradual opening of borders between mildly affected neighboring regions could be key and mean that Schengen could co-exist with the coronavirus.