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Having travelled the EU extensively, my acquaintances have commented on the Schengen “ treaty”, always voicing concern if it is discontinued- seems as it is, signaling the EU fracturing.

Keep in mind the EU is requiring this year for US citizens to apply for Visas to enter the EU. Bodes not well for the EU tourist and business sectors.

1 posted on 01/13/2025 7:51:19 AM PST by delta7
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To: delta7

I wonder if they’ll apply that to the illegals, *migrants8 and *refugees*, or just law abiding citizens who only plan to visit.


2 posted on 01/13/2025 7:57:23 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: delta7

The US should have a policy that whatever restrictions a country imposes on us, we impose back on them for people who wish to come to us from them.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 7:59:01 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: delta7

“welfare”

Welfare need not pay the full amount of living costs.

It might pay half, with the rest coming from tax rebates.

What if you’ve not paid much tax?

¡Adios o empleo!


4 posted on 01/13/2025 8:00:41 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: delta7
As the economy turns down very hard after 2015.75
That scamming unrepentant convicted felon forecaster Martin Armstrong always said BEFORE "2015.75" that "2015.75" would be the time of an economic Big Bang.

It never happened.

He has his own Wikipedia page:

Martin A. Armstrong

Martin Arthur Armstrong (born November 1, 1949) is an American self-taught[1] economic forecaster and convicted felon who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700 million and hiding $15 million in assets from regulators.[1]

He now scams people at his online store where he sells useless subscriptions, books, reports and conferences costing hundreds and thousands.

Buyer beware.
5 posted on 01/13/2025 8:03:10 AM PST by MoneyBack
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To: delta7

“Bodes not well for the EU tourist and business sectors.”

The European tourist business is pretty maxed out. Places like Barcelona, Florence and Venice are trying to trim it back.


7 posted on 01/13/2025 8:06:14 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: delta7

https://etias.com/


8 posted on 01/13/2025 8:09:34 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: delta7

Opening the borders within Schengen, which people favored, has failed because they opened the borders to people outside of Europe, which no one asked for or wanted. Huge betrayal and huge bait-and-switch.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 8:28:02 AM PST by marron
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To: delta7

Shall we then ask - what’s so great about Schengen?

OK, your train from Paris to Berlin doesn’t need to stop at the border for passport checks, or your truck full of Chinese-made TVs can drive straight through from Rotterdam Port to Munich without a customs exam

Is that small benefit worth the price of having a fascist super-state in Brussels, getting involved in wars no one wants, or having one’s country invaded by migrants with the help and planning of marxist globalists?


11 posted on 01/13/2025 8:38:43 AM PST by PGR88
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save the jobs of the Eurocrats

The European Union and its top heavy overpaid, untaxed, ludicrous expense accounts, bureaucracy is a massive burden on Europe, but the foundation, along with NATO, of Belgium's artificially prosperous economy. Even while suffering a mini Beirut and mini Kinshasa in the heart of Brussels, of course they will oppose anything that disrupts the gravy train.

20 posted on 01/13/2025 10:06:55 AM PST by katana
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