Schengen in the suction of sovereignism
Journal: Culture Practice & Europeanization
Year: 2025

This article examines how the Schengen system generates new tensions between European integration and state sovereignty. Schengen challenges the traditional concept of sovereignty by transferring border control to the European level, while simultaneously creating perceptions of lost national control. These contradictions provide fertile ground for sovereignist politics, which promise to simplify complex transnational realities by invoking “the will of the people” and reinforcing symbolic and mat