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10-26-2004, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by fable I was under the impression that the EU actually had a fair amount of control over such matters as tarriffs, production, and immigration. That isn't the case? | Not as much as one would think, actually. For instance, regarding immigration, the 15 pre-2004 EU countries have signed the Schengen treaty. This is supposed to mean we can travel and move easier between those 15 contries if we are already citizens of one Schengen-country. It also means that if a political asylum seeker from outside of EU applies for asylum and get rejected by one Schengen country, that person is not allowed to apply for asylum in another Schengen country.
However, a person who seeks asylum in a Schengen country however, are not assessed according to any kind of central standard, instead all individual countries apply their local regulation and standard. (I think this is horrible and inhumane, but let's not go into that now.) The effect is that each EU country decide how many, from where and what type of immigrants it takes in. If you compare the immigrations policy of for instance Finland and the Netherlands, the contrast is extreme.
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