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Free Movement And Its Effects On Native Citizens

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The Schengen Area is comprised of 26 countries that have agreed to allow free movement of their citizens within this area as a single country. Schengen agreement was signed and implemented in alignment with the scenario of the unification of Europe as a single sovereign federation of states, similar to the United States of America . The idea was if the EU becomes a country with a common currency and open borders between the countries, this continent could re-gain its position in the modern world as a giant economic power by implementing a bigger trade, better communication, more science research, and so on. While some industrialized countries like Germany and France were hoping for cheap workforce through the Schengen agreement, pros and cons of immigrants and cheap workforce and their effects on their native citizens’ life were always in debate of European radical right-parties and the main obstacle in approaching this agreement. It is obvious that the writer is trying to create a worrisome issue looming over the Schengen countries by connecting the recent Paris attacks to the Schengen zone and suggesting the suspending of open borders within the countries in this area. While it is not clear either the Schengen agreement or the refugees or both issues are being targeted in author’s article, this paper explains the irrelevancy and nonsensically of this connection and suggests to view and solve these issues in a different way. It is certainly easy to flight from Oslo to

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