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But the rising call for more travel restrictions within the EU—which does not require travelers to produce passports at many borders between member nations—is not likely to get far, according to experts. That said, EU citizens can probably expect increased surveillance and more restrictions on who can get inside the EU in the first place.
“I would expect greater restrictions on people coming into the continent, but I would be very surprised if anything was done to make it more difficult to travel within the continent," Thomas Sanderson, a terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Mashable.
Not only would travel restrictions within the continent erase part of the idea of free movement within the EU, but Nicholas Dungan, a senior fellow at The Atlantic Council, an international affairs think tank, told Mashable that increased security along national borders would be impractical and "extremely expensive."
Instead, Sanderson and Dungan expect to see beefed up security around the Schengen Area, which is the border that contains most of the EU, with some notable exceptions such as the United Kingdom.
That means more security officials at border posts and making sure the equipment is up-to-date, but perhaps not much more, Dungan said.
European nations are also likely to start sharing intelligence with fellow European countries that they may not have before. In an attempt to coordinate across the continent against a potential threat from more extremists, there is at least a perceived benefit in handing out information that would otherwise be kept among close allies.
"We’re going to see a surge in cooperation, but that, too, will fade over time," Sanderson said.
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