Schengen in permanent crisis : Will the EU’s ‘coma patient’ ever awake again ?
Contrary to the financial crisis, the crisis of the Schengen area, connecting 26 European states in a passport-free travel zone, has not led to further European integration and common responses, but rather brought about renationalisation and unilateral measures. Laura Schmeer gives an overview of the EU’s “partly comatose” (Jean-Claude Juncker, 2015) flagship project’s course of disease and its chances of survival.