WILL IMMIGRATION BRING THE EU DOWN?

Ioannis Kolovos

(RIEAS research associate on the issue of illegal immigration and editor of the “RIEAS Newsletter on Immigration to Greece”)

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The economic crisis is the most prominent issue facing the EU these days. But there is also another issue – a silently emerging one – that may have even more serious repercussions for the EU’s future than the economic crisis.If the mishandling of the issue of immigration - both legal and illegal – continues, it may well threaten the existence of the EU as we know it. Recently, the pressure is mounting on a basic pillar of the EU: the Schengen Agreement.