The Cost of Non-Schengen: the Impact of Border Controls within Schengen on the Single Market
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07-06-2016
This paper considers the costs of four scenarios for the reintroduction of border controls within the Schengen area: for two years for seven countries; for two years across the Schengen area; indefinitely for seven countries; and indefinitely across the Schengen area. It identifies how a reintroduction of borders would create costs of 'non-Schengen' and estimates that cost quantitatively. For the highest-cost scenario — indefinite suspension of the whole Schengen area – the cost is 0.06-0.14 per cent of EU GDP, or some €100 billion to €230 billion over ten years.
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- border control
- capital market
- economic analysis
- economic consequence
- ECONOMICS
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- FINANCE
- free movement of capital
- free movement of goods
- free movement of persons
- freedom to provide services
- impact study
- internal border of the EU
- international law
- international trade
- LAW
- length of journey
- organisation of transport
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- single market
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- tourism
- TRADE
- TRANSPORT