“Increasing cross-border travelling entails cross-border crime such as migrant smuggling and irregular migration arrangements, which involves third-country nationals that are smuggled into the EU territories, or narcotic drugs smugglers, terrorists and other criminals,” the paper says. ‘“This poses a growing challenge to national law enforcement authorities in combating crime.”
That’s what happens with freedom of movement, of course. meanwhile, the ordinary citizen, going about his business will be subject to more checks, more intrusive data gathering and more erosion of privacy.