This is John Batcher, conversation with my colleague Antonio Kula Bashano, an analyst for geopolitical

futures. She's in Bucharest, Romania. Question about migration, troubling all the EU. Is there a migration problem in Romania?

Antonio answers by referring to Schengen, the Schengen area.

This is an agreement of trade and people moving back and forth across borders without challenge.

That is now adjusting itself in Germany.

And Antonia qualifies very carefully her remarks because this is a moving story.

Germany is fearful of migration, migrants, outsiders, and is now put in some form of passport control or border control.

East and North were told.

Antonio comments on that and asks about Schengen in light of Germany's unilateral decision for politics to

put in border controls of some fashion.

Does this mean all the EU will revert to the old days. Everybody had a border, everybody had

challenges, everybody had to show passports, and goods did not move freely back and

forth. Remember that old proverb, When goods do not cross borders, armies cross borders.

And then there's the fear of Russia. Here's Antonio Kolibachano on migration, Romania, Schengen, and trade.

More of this tonight.

We do not have a refugee population similar to Germany because obviously Germany is the place to go when you're a refugee from the Middle East, for instance.

What we do have and we are concerned is the potential for increased refugees from the east, which means Moldova or Ukraine, which we did have.

However, because we are not part of Schengen and because we do want to be part of Schengen for trade, obviously it is more important to have open borders and more efficient, not important, more efficient to have open

borders if you want to have the trade flow working properly within the

European Union and Romania wants to get there, we are very much

concerned because Germany closing down the borders for whatever reason, migration or politics. Let's remember that the two parties

that were winning the elections a couple of weeks ago are anti-migration and are actually supportive of such measures as

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