@Melchior
@feddit.orgEs gibt jede Menge Pläne, allerdings dauert es halt ewig bis die wirklich durch sind. Das ist momentan ungefähr der Stand und die genau Planungen sollen bald kommen.
Das war auch nur ein 6Monate langer Verkehrsversuch. Viele der Änderungen werden jetzt ordentlich durchgeführt, mit richtigen Stahlpollern und so weiter.
Embassies are used to coordinate spies. The actual terrorists often have had contacts with the embassy spy staff, but they use other passports. So by monitoring the embassy staff, you are able to find the actual terrorist spies. So when you find a Russia diplomat in the wrong country, you start to follow them.
Monitoring them anywhere in the schengen is easier than monitoring them at specific and significantly smaller subset of anywhere (at the borders)?
Yes! How do you know they are crossing a border in Schengen? There are not permanent border checkpoints and few border patrols. So you have to be lucky to catch them in a random patrol. So you either have to know their locations at all times, hence monitor them anywhere, or you need to reintroduce border checkpoints all across the Schengen Area, which means staffing thousands of km of borders and monitoring the rest of the borders for illegal crossings as well. Obviously that destroys the entire advantage of Schengen in the first place.
That would be optimal. However if someone objects to solution of lesser intensity, then this optimal one is not likely to succeed, is it?
Germany expelled so many embassy staff that Russia shut down 4 out of 5 consulats. Italy also kicked out a bunch of diplomatic staff.
Because Raiffeisen Bank made a hell of a lot of money in Russia and when all the other Western banks pulled out, they made even more.