Sentence examples for travel area from inspiring English sources
Salmond proposes a common travel area, like the UK/Ireland agreement.
But there would be controls on people arriving from outside that common travel area.
The travel area between the republic and the UK might have to be rethought.
So lesbian and gay honeymoons are a new growth travel area in the UK.
Nor would Scotland necessarily inherit Britain's opt-out from Europe's passport free travel area, the Schengen zone.
The common travel area (which includes the UK, Ireland and the three crown dependencies) now looks unsustainable.
The Schengen free-travel area is particularly vulnerable.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has been beating the drum for protectionism, and for renationalising border controls in the Schengen free-travel area (his speech is here PDF).
Asked if this could potentially mean Britain being obliged, as a new member, to sign up to the Schengen free-travel area, Smith said: "Potentially, but again we are getting into hypotheticals built on hypotheticals".
The EU needs to fix the mess it has made of both the eurozone and its free-travel area and leave behind the institutions and habits of the past.
European governments have responded to the Paris atrocities by ordering immediate vetting of all EU nationals for potential terrorism or criminal connections, in a new regime of much tighter border controls for the EU's 26-country free-travel area.
