Poland has been forced to design a stricter migratory regime firstly for EU accession and secondly, for entering Schengen espace. Since December 2007 Polish eastern frontier (stretching across 1,200 kilometres from the Baltic to the Carpathians) has become one of the few points in Europe at which it is possible to control human spatial mobility on the east-west axis.
‘Integration contracts’ for immigrants have become widespread in Europe during the last 10 years but their results remain unclear.
The EU Treaty approved in Lisbon incorporates the European Defence Agency among the European institutions aimed at supporting the new Common Security and Defence Policy.
The main irregular migration route from Asia to Europe passes through Turkey into Greece, which also receives irregular migrants from former Communist countries.
Turkey's occupation of 37% of Cyprus is a protracted legal and political anomaly that the EU is morally obliged to address immediately.
Gordon Brown is about to complete his first semester as British Prime Minister and it is now possible to assess some of the changes which he has made to foreign policy. This new vision, which combines multilateralism with interventionism, he describes as 'hard headed internationalism'.
European governments are making a serious, long-term investment in cross-border law enforcement co-operation against organised crime.
This ARI reviews the evolution of Russia’s stance on Kosovo from the disintegration of the former Republic of Yugoslavia to the NATO bombing of Serbia and the implications of a Kosovar independent State according to the Ahtisaari Plan.
Germany’s EU presidency ended with a precise mandate to negotiate a new treaty in line with the classical method of reform for constitutional treaties.
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