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Originally posted by Benjamin
(Reply to you in general, not just this post)
So, you're proposing that they build walls all around their borders to stop people crossing? Are you going to pay for it or are you just going to shout at them and pretend you're better because your country has a natural, free, access blocker?
It's easy for an island nation to minimise migration, but you could literally walk between European countries regardless of how many border checks they do. All you're doing by introducing border checks is making it more difficult for regular people and business to travel. I'd understand the need if you were next to a country that's falling to pieces, but there's no reason to stop people traveling between Italy and Germany. This would be a pretty bad example to use to argue against it.
Even the UK has open borders with the only country it shares a land border with. If there were a terrorist attack in Ireland would you be campaigning to build a wall between the two Irelands?
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It's one of those subject where people have 0 nuances. You're already talking about walls and stuff
Plus :
Temporarily reintroduced border controls in the context of foreseeable events:
France (13 November 2015 – 26 January 2017) COP 21, the emergency state as introduced on the French territory further to the terrorist attacks in Paris, Euro 2016, Tour de France, the emergency state as prolonged on 21 July 2016 further to the terrorist attack in Nice).
Temporarily reintroduced border controls in the context of Recommendation of the Council of 11 November 2016:
Germany (12 November 2016 – 12 February 2017) land border with Austria
Austria (12 November 2016 – 12 February 2017) land border with Slovenia and with Hungary
Denmark (12 November 2016 – 12 February 2017) Danish ports with ferry connections to Germany and the Danish-German land border
Sweden (12 November 2016 – 11 February 2017) Swedish harbours in the Police Region South and West and the Öresund bridge
Norway (12 November 2016 – 12 February 2017) Norwegian ports with ferry connections to Denmark, Germany and Sweden
Germany should've control its border for a few days, until they got him. Period.