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1. „We must learn to live together as brothers or perish
together as fools.“
Martin Luther King Jr.
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

2. The Schengen area
The political geographic view
Pavel Pešek

3. The main points
• Introduction
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Conclusion

4. Introduction
• Absorbed by the EU law in 1999
• Boarder free Europe
• Free movement of citizens
• Applied among 400 millions of people

5. Advantages
• Schengen information system
• Cooperation of institutions
• Free travelling
• Cheaper goods

6. Disadvantage
• Movements of criminals
• Easier movement for illegal refugees
• Non-schengen citizens 35 €
• Unequal market conditions

7. Conclusion
• Affects everyone
o Member states
o Non-member state
• Advantages overwhelmed disadvantages
• Schengen was a good calll

8. THE END

9. Resources
• http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/fre
e_movement_of_persons_asylum_immigration/l33020_en.htm
• http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_abroa
d/freedom_of_movement_within_the_eu/free_movement_of_people
_within_the_schengen_area.html
• http://www.slideshare.net/simonehrlich/schengen2