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While the platform does refer to the country’s “humanitarian responsibilities,” it also demands “functioning protection” of the EU’s external borders.
But the administrative borders of these districts were never fully established, and they have changed at least eight times since 1951.
If there is one exception, it is the automobile industry, which is heavily dependent on open borders with the US.
Shortly after redeploying to the borders of Gaza, Israel severely restricted ties between Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the movement of goods in or out of Gaza.
In fact, it is this European crisis of confidence that has turned the current refugee crisis into an existential one: If the EU fails to regain control of its external borders, it will erect internal ones, jeopardizing the entire European project.
And the challenges do not end at Ukraine’s borders.
One reason why the crisis in Ukraine has proved so difficult to overcome is that its roots stretch far outside the country’s borders.
With Russia’s neighbors free to join the alliance, the natural result could only be a new dividing line, one pressing up against the Russian Federation’s western and southern borders.
After all, economic and political breakdown in Russia would have profound adverse consequences well beyond Russia’s borders – particularly for Ukraine.
And by resorting to unofficial channels and circumventing the legal obligations for crossing borders, they also inadvertently undermine the rule of law.
To be sure, this is possible only if the United States pushes Israel much harder than it has so far to give Palestine viable borders.
The surge of refugees in Europe, especially Syrian asylum-seekers in 2015, led to an explosion of populist sentiment, with political leaders increasingly calling for borders to be closed.
Such fears tend to overshadow the more pragmatic aspects of immigration, leading to tightly – even irrationally – regulated borders that limit the global economy’s potential.
Although both source and destination countries would benefit from more open borders, global immigration reform is not currently politically feasible.
Moreover, alliances no longer fit within Sunni-Shia borders, further underscoring the primacy of politics, rather than religion, in fueling regional conflicts.
Today’s chaos in the Middle East is rooted largely in historical legacies – arbitrarily drawn borders being a major one – and a lack of visionary leadership.
India cannot and will not abandon its territorial sovereignty, or its pursuit of secure land borders or a greater balance in trade.
The group’s leaders must simply adjust their methods, in order to continue attracting recruits and planning attacks from outside the borders of a friendly sovereign state.
The glaring discrepancy between the cost of treating illness and preventing death in Uganda and the US makes Trump’s proposed reduction in aid spending – especially on global health programs – indicative of deep disregard for the lives and wellbeing of people beyond the borders of the US.
Natural interventions beyond a city’s borders can also help to address water-management challenges.
And Europe, on the front line, risks its future and a part of its identity as the people it could not protect press at its borders, asking to be let in.
Europe needs to recover the mentality of 1989, when the movement of large numbers of people across borders – initially, the Hungarian-Austrian frontier – prompted reform and openness, rather than a silo mentality.
But the fact is that, while an integrated market for goods and services requires a degree of labor mobility, it does not imply that all people must have the right to cross borders and look for a job in the country of their choice.
But there is something that the EU should fear: destitution within its borders and the pernicious consequences for the continent’s politics and society.
What mainstream parties need to be make clear, however, is that the answers to those problems do not lie in closing borders or minds.
Advocates of open borders can pay now, or they will certainly pay later.
As with the United States and Mexico, the consequences of growing gaps in living standards, good governance, and the rule of law will inevitably flow across borders.
Similarly, on immigration, Tuck claims that, despite the insufferable xenophobia dominating the Leave campaign, the only way to overcome racism is to let Britain’s people “feel” sovereign again by returning control of their borders to London.
In the absence of such leadership, the Syrian crisis is likely to have a contagious effect, as refugees, arms, and militant Islamists cross borders in greater numbers than they have since the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Only if people believe in an open society that transcends national borders can such a society be brought into existence.
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