Posts Tagged ‘schengen’

A borderless world

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Since at least 1970s, we all became used to seamless and instantaneous access to financial resources worldwide.

Over the last few decades, this extended also to the assembly line and the supply chain.

The missing link is still the people.

We are burdened by increasingly Byzantine rules on movement and resettlement, whose complexity is creating an industry in its own.

In this article, some simple considerations from observing rules and regulations around, trying to balance common sense and security.

Ryanair vs ENAC- observations on Schengen's side-effects

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Following Italian news is almost a full-time job, and also in Italy I met quite a few people whose only source of information is the sampling of few TV news.

If you missed the news- it has been reported that the T.A.R. (an administrative court of appeals) sided with ENAC’s decision that “in the interest of consumers” any kind of ID issued by Italian authorities (including hunting and driving licenses) is acceptable to identify yourself for internal flights, not just those recognized by other members states.

Interesting times: Internet, copyright, patents

Monday, October 5th, 2009

We are heading toward interesting times but, as usual, time is the main constraint.

It is a small world- and, moving online, borders become even more irrelevant.

There are some calls to stifle innovation by creating artificial online borders- but it is akin to re-instating border controls within Schengen: a temporary, cumbersome, and annoying palliative.