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“EU will Fall Apart in a Decade, Admits European Parliament Headeu will Fall Apart in a Decade”
by Express.co.uk
December 8th, 2015

THE European Union is at risk of falling apart over the next 10-years due to the migrant crisis, the head of the European Parliament suggested.

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The EU could crumble in just a decade, Mr Schulz said

Martin Schulz said the EU was in danger as there are forces trying to rip it apart.

He was responding to a recent warning from Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg's foreign affairs and migration minister, the union might break apart.

Mr Schulz said: "No one can say whether the EU will still exist in this form in 10-years' time.

"If we want that then we need to fight very hard for it."

He did not specify what exactly was threatening the EU but focused heavily on the migrant crisis, which has stretched Europe's unity and many of its member countries' tolerance this year.

The European Parliament head said the EU was not without alternatives and "could of course be reversed".

He warned other options included a removal of the free-movement Schengen zone to a Europe in which nationalism, borders and walls were prevalent.

Mr Schulz said: "That would be disastrous because that kind of Europe has repeatedly led our continent into catastrophe."

Divisions are rife within the EU over the thousands of migrants and refugees coming into Europe from war-torn countries such as Syria.

One of the most notable is between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has led efforts to take in more Syrians, and leaders of the formerly Communist east who oppose EU schemes to make them take in more asylum seekers.

Britain has also refused to join a quota system for refugees coming into Europe approved by the EU, but instead is housing Syrian refugees in the UK directly from camps in and around Syria.

The passport-free Schengen zone, which Britain is not party to, looks under threat as well as some countries re-introduce border controls.

Last Thursday Greece, which has some of the most amounts of refugees arriving on its shores, asked for European help to secure its borders and care for crowds of migrants, defusing threats from EU allies to bar it from the Schengen zone if it failed to gain control.

Mr Schulz added no country could single-handedly tackle challenges like migration, adding this was only possible as a unified EU.

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