Schilde on Al Jazeera: The EU at Risk
In a January 20th segment on Al Jazeera English, Boston University Assistant Professor of International Relations Kaija Schilde argued that addressing the current refugee crisis as it pertains to border security needed to be a priority for all of Europe.
Schilde talks about European Council President Donald Tusk’s recent announcement that the EU must deal with the refugee crisis in “no more than two month” or face the collapse of its passport-free Schengen zone.
“Schengen is at risk and the EU is at risk, and I agree with the two-month time frame, that this has to be something immediate,” adds Schilde, “but what I disagree with is the idea that the EU has to have more border security or that the states have to have more security by reintroducing border control, that’s almost a nineteenth-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem.”
According to Schilde, a potential solution to this problem lies in strengthening internal security, possibly even creating an “EU FBI” to address these internal crises.
To learn more about Schilde and her research interests, click here.
-Toria Rainey, ‘18