There is one small problem, however: Ireland's internal border.
The commission wants to end all internal border controls by the end of the year.
It's the place where, in 1985, several European countries decided to abolish internal border controls.
It also grants them leverage in resolving oil and internal border disputes with Baghdad.
They must make a long drive north and face internal border checkpoints.
There is a negotiated three-mile-wide zone along this internal border that Serbian troops are not supposed to enter.
"Internal border controls will be a nightmare," admitted an ambassador in Brussels from a large EU country.
Most contentiously, they dream of an internal border that allots big chunks of "Arab" northern Iraq to Kurdistan, including Kirkuk.
Restoring internal border controls would result in immediate costs of up to €18bn a year or 0.13% of the annual output of the Schengen area, it says.
Nor is it to the two million Bosnians who have a failed economy, a dysfunctional presidency and continued hostilities across an internal border.
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