Schengen and centralization of the EU by Antonio Vulas
Door Antonio Vulas Head of the Illegal Migration Department in the Police Administration Split-Dalmatia. Graduated on the Law faculty, University of Split. In the Police since 1990. Creation of the EU and Schengen Although Schengen and the European Union have the same mother - the idea of united Europe - we might say that their fathers and childhoods were different. From the very beginning for some of the creators of the European economic fusion it was just a first step for much higher objective - a political unification. The economically united (western) Europe was born in atmosphere still full of toxic war clouds. France was on the knees, held up only by a weak hand of wounded Britain. Germany was buried under the ruins. Political strength of the European countries was broken. The Russian tanks on the banks of Elbe and Danube reminded the western Europeans that the days of fear have not disappeared with the German panzers. The idea of united Europ...