There are worrying signs the postwar consensus on free trade and open borders may be unraveling.
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Open borders can of course cost trade, to some, as they bring it to others.
Such assertions are unlikely to persuade a well-informed skeptic of open borders, although the studies seem sound.
Finally, he discussed how open borders, integration and the threat of foreign competition increases efficiency in an economy.
Only last month, in front of 11 African leaders, he was preaching open borders and a single currency.
And today's more open borders make it easier for organized groups to orchestrate traveling networks of criminals, experts say.
Unions are hardly for open borders given their misbegotten fear that the arrival of the ambitious will push down wages.
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The trick is to argue for greater cosmopolitanism and less nativism than we see today, without having to advocate for open borders.
Leading officials in Brussels say they have to convince voters that Europe's model of open borders is in the interests of the ordinary citizen.
If you lawfully object to, say, the erosion of traditional marriage or open borders, you stand to be condemned by the SPLC as a hater.
Canadians will be asking how much of our sovereignty and our privacy rights will be given up to have more open borders and an integrated economy.
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Do French and European voters want to keep open borders at a time when 24 million people are out of work or would they prefer some restrictions?
Milton Friedman warned that the latter makes open borders impossible.
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Its expansion from 15 members to 25 should create pressure for making the EU what it always should have been--a vast free-trade area with open borders and, for most members, a common currency.
In the public perception, the scandal is about issues dear to the Greens' heart, such as more open borders and multiculturalism, versus security and the economy, which most Germans now care about more.
This is the ultimate test of economic diplomacy and arguments about the peace dividend: does trade, once established politically, have the power to sustain itself and to maintain peaceful, open borders even as political environments change?
Mr Shimazaki thinks farm liberalisation is inevitable as old farmers retire, but like many is worried about the costs of open borders on other uncompetitive parts of the economy, such as the finance and construction industries.
And it is one of the reasons that Poland - assuming it makes into the EU - will have to wait a few years before it will be trusted enough to have fully open borders with the other member countries to the west.
The takeaway is that economists should stress the cosmopolitan, and instead of dismissing cosmopolitanism as merely implying untenable open borders we should be focusing on how to create immigration policies short of open borders take as much advantage as possible of these trillion dollar bills.
With our open borders, low tariffs, strong protections for intellectual property, low energy costs, integrated supply chains, and, most importantly, our skilled work force, our nations are working cooperatively to bring jobs back from remote shores, which is one reason why, for the first time in a decade, U.S. manufacturing job growth is again on the rise.
He also called for the US to compel Israel to open its borders with Gaza.
The agency is seeking sites for new camps, while trying to persuade Afghanistan's neighbours to open their borders.
But she did not think Pakistan would give in to appeals to immediately open the borders to let the refugees through.
Georgia and Turkey recently agreed to open their borders, allowing citizens and cars from both countries to travel back and forth freely.
They want Israel to acquiesce to Hamas's demand to open its borders with Gaza and to support the opening of Egypt's border crossing with Gaza.
Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations.
"How we open up borders for the free flow of people, or workers, as well as goods - that is being discussed as well as infrastructure, " he said.
Ahead of his arrival, Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized the Obama administration for failing to open its borders to Mexican trucks as required under the North American Free Trade agreement.
He works for a multinational firm, and thinks that open EU borders for goods and workers are a good thing (he had a great time at a Polish colleague's wedding).
It also called for neighbouring Iran to open its borders and allow Afghan refugees fleeing the fighting to cross into its territory -- adding to the 2.3 million already seeking refuge.
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