Dennis Lennox: Islamic terrorism makes the Schengen Agreement outdated

Dennis Lennox, a freelance journalist and active Republican in Michigan who attended the Blackpool party conference, believes we should pull out of the Schengen Agreement.

With nine new countries joining Europe’s so-called “free movement zone" one cannot forget the serious threat to national security posed by open borders.

As I wrote in the Financial Times shortly after the 2005 terrorist attacks in London, the Schengen Agreement was conceived with the best possible intentions in 1985, but the omnipresent threat of islamofasicts attacking European cities cannot be ignored by security agencies.

While it may have originally stood for the utopian vision of European Union integration with the slow deterioration of national borders, it now allows the very worst of society – terrorists, smugglers and others – to travel across the continent from Estonia in the north to Portugal in the south and east to Hungary without hindrance.

In its coverage of Schengen expansion, the French AFP news agency said the enlarged zone will “bring an end to long queues.”