EU refugee crisis: End of an ideal
In a 2012 report Hugo Brady, now an aide to European Council president Donald Tusk, called on European leaders to "snuff the fuse" lit under the Schengen endeavour. "Without more assertive political action and a fair amount of luck," he wrote for the CER, "the fragile confidence that allows 26 European countries to share a single border and visa policy could collapse." In terms of trust, it duly has.