Leaders | Europe’s migrant crisis
Shooting Schengen
Only an EU-wide agreement on asylum can save passport-free travel in Europe
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Shooting Schengen”
From the September 19th 2015 edition
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