Relevansi Perjanjian Schengen Pasca Serangan Teror ISIS di Eropa Periode 2015-2016

Abstract

The European Union is not only an intergovernmental organization, but also a supranational organization. As a supranational organization, its member states agreed to give some of their sovereignty to the European Union to gain a larger collective power and influence. This includes the free movement of capital, goods, service, and people over borders and the abolishment of border control within the European Union through the Schengen Agreement and Schengen Convention, which acts as its implementing instrument. However, a series of terrorist acts of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a number of European states in 2015-2016 proves that the Schengen system still has some fragility. The fragility of Schengen system can be seen as a group of ISIS members took a benefit from the free movement within the Schengen zone to perform their actions. The vulnerability of Schengen system is related to the failure of the European Union states to overcome their national security problems since the “lost” of sovereignty through the system gave some opportunity to the terrorists to move over the states’ boundaries with ease. In this article, the writer will study the relevance of the Schengen Agreement after that series of terrorist acts.