{"id":5897,"date":"2011-05-13T03:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2011-05-13T03:42:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T03:42:33","slug":"go-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/go-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Denmark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/13\/world\/europe\/13iht-border13.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print\">Denmark Reintroduces Border Controls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under pressure from a growing nationalist movement, the government in Denmark on Thursday reintroduced stringent checks on its borders with Germany and Sweden, dealing a major setback to one of the European Union\u2019s most popular and tangible measures: the freedom to cross frontiers without controls.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second major assault within weeks on an agreement originally signed in 1985 at Schengen, a town in Luxembourg near France and Germany, and has gone a long way toward abolishing border controls across much of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, proposed amending the Schengen accord this month in an effort to deal with the wave of refugees fleeing to Italy from North Africa and the Middle East.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth I think the idea of some sort of unification of the present nation-states of Europe isn&#8217;t implausible.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalmar_Union\">Kalmar Union<\/a> once bound Norden together. But an assemblage which includes Greece and Finland in the same manner as Finland and Sweden is just incoherent geopolitical engineering. A pan-European project has to leverage organic cultural affinities at lower levels first, and integrate in a step-by-step fashion. But that&#8217;s hard, so Euro-elites tried to generate unity by <i>fiat<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark Reintroduces Border Controls: Under pressure from a growing nationalist movement, the government in Denmark on Thursday reintroduced stringent checks on its borders with Germany and Sweden, dealing a major setback to one of the European Union\u2019s most popular and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/go-denmark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}