Cascading Border Closures Rock Europe
18th September 2015
Europe is experiencing a series of cascading border closures, rippling outward like circuit breakers tripping during a power surge. A week ago, Denmark suspended its rail link to Germany. On Monday, Germany closed its border with Austria. Austria, Slovakia, and the Netherlands all clamped “temporary” border restrictions into place.
If something can’t go on forever, eventually it will stop. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can even fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.