The Blind, the Deaf and the Dumb!:How Domestic Politics Turned the Danish Schengen Controvery into a Foreign Policy Crisis
Journal: Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
Year: 2012

The Commission ultimately threatened to take Denmark to court for breaking not only Schengen but also the European Union's rules on free movement. [...]the whole dispute enjoyed massive media coverage internationally. A simple Google search for the words 'the Danish Schengen crisis' shows just how much attention the debacle attracted in the international media, with no less than 767,000 hits.10 The present analysis will be centred on a rather detailed analysis of what actually happened in Danish