One major challenge now for neighbours such as Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus is how to convince the EU that they can be good partners in fulfilling the objectives of Schengen and protecting the EU’s interest with respect to who comes in and out of its external borders. The two main questions on which this working paper is centred are: - To what extent can there be flexibility in implementing Schengen rules to prevent marginalising the new EU neighbours as a result of fears about ‘threats’ moving westwards across borders? - What can the EU neighbours do in the short, medium and long term to promote trust and to one day hope to come off the Schengen ‘negative list’ with respect to freedom of movement?
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Joanna Apap is head of unit and research fellow on Justice and Home Affairs at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. Angelina Tchorbadjiyska is a scientific collaborator with the Justice and Home Affairs Unit at CEPS and a PhD candidate at the Katholieke Universitieit Leuven (KUL) in Belgium.
