Economics
Terror Impact Threatens Cameron EU Pitch, Merkel's Open Door
- UKIP uses Brussels killings to argue U.K. is safer outside EU
- Pressure raised on Europe's passport-free Schengen zone
How Has Europe Responded to Brussels Attacks?
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If David Cameron and Angela Merkel thought they had earned a moment’s respite from their woes, the murderous attacks in Brussels only deepened their political turmoil.
The bombings at the heart of the European Union that killed at least 31 people were seized upon by proponents of Britain leaving the bloc to argue that EU membership puts the U.K. more at risk, rather than making it safer as the prime minister asserts. In Germany, an insurgent party that benefited from opposition to Chancellor Merkel’s open-door policy on refugees immediately warned of the threat of “political Islam.”