Is EU free movement about to fall apart?

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Last month Germany suspended free movement at some of its borders, citing growing migration concerns. Critics of the move believe it’s dealt a body blow to the integrity of the European project, leading to an angry outburst from Poland’s PM - and former European Council President - Donald Tusk about “unfair unilateral” action from a fellow EU member state. This weekend, however, Poland followed suit and has threatened to suspend the right to asylum in the country. Tusk believes Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise the EU by abusing its asylum policy and luring in thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa, in turn fuelling a resurgent far-right. So what becomes of the Schengen Area and free movement now?

Later, we discuss how to write Alex Salmond’s obituary. Tributes flooded in following his death this weekend, but have the media glossed over his own admission of inappropriate conduct?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.0	This is a global player original podcast.
0:11.7	We're talking about borders today because there is a story that has probably passed you by
0:18.3	that is rumbling along quietly that is about to become explosive.
0:24.6	And at the heart of this story is the question of whether the EU can hold on to its free
0:31.6	movement policy, a policy that lies right at the heart of everything the EU stands for, because individual states are
0:40.7	starting to peel away and take their own actions right now. And we're not just talking about
0:46.5	small EU member states. We're talking about Germany. We're talking about Poland. Countries at the
0:53.0	heart of the EU, which are saying we can no longer
0:56.6	afford to have no checks on our frontiers. The question is, is that if this spreads, is it a bomb
1:03.8	under the heart of the EU project? Welcome to the Newsagents.
1:12.4	The Newsagents.
1:13.3	It's Emily.
1:13.9	It's Lewis.
1:19.8	And whilst we are here talking about borders, we should spare a thought for our poor colleague, John Sopel.
1:21.6	A man who has crossed a few borders in his time.
1:25.7	Yes, who was nowhere near either an EU border or a Russian border tonight.
1:27.0	He's on an island group.
1:28.6	He is. A West Indian island group. He's on an island group. An unnamed island group.
1:29.9	A West Indian island group. He's been working very hard.
1:31.0	Very, very hard.
1:32.9	And there will be umbrellas in the cocktails as we speak.
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