Migrants on the move in Europe
Like the euro, the European Union’s 1995 Schengen agreement is a concrete expression of the integration of the European continent. It guarantees the free movement of people across 25 countries – 22 EU states, plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. In theory, a person can travel 3,000km from Poland to Portugal without having to show his or her passport. But Schengen was never designed to cope with migratory pressures of the kind that are building up in north Africa as a result of the region’s political and social tum