Part 2 of 2

Another troubling aspect of the EU's response to Brexit has been its stubborn insistence on maintaining the status quo with respect to the free movement of people. The wisdom of this aspect of the EU system has clearly been called into question given the recent spate of terrorist incidents in which multiple perpetrators who received training in the Middle East were able to seamlessly slip back into the continent by taking advantage of the EU's porous borders. For the EU's leaders to not even consider the possibility of making adjustments to their border policies demonstrates exactly the sort of inflexibility that helps fuel anti-EU sentiment across that continent.