The European borders are lined with long lists of what may and may not be imported into the European Union. They are complex lists. For example peanuts may be imported but peanut butter may not. Greek and Spanish tomatoes are preferred above tomatoes grown outside the Union. Except in the winter.

The lists include limitation in the free movement of persons within the European Union. For example, a Turkish trade who lives in one of the European countries may ship his walnuts to a European city outside that country, but, unless he has a visa and other papers, he himself may not bring the walnuts to the city.

All these rules and sub-rules seen tangled in an incredibly confusing knot.

Open Borders Behind Closed Doors unties the knot in text and cartoon strips. It helps you to get to know all about the real world of trade policies and protectionism, describing how this effects the European Unions' policies regarding migrants, people seeking asylum and refugees.

Author Peter Pennartz is an economist and works with IRENE. Dr. Sellbuy Anymeans and Jack Nitwit are in no way associated with that organisation.

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