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Over the last few years, the EU’s discourse concerning border controls has presented a paradox – on the one hand, the EU promotes good neighbourly relations, while on the other hand it emphasises the need to strictly implement the Schengen acquis on border controls and visa regimes. According to this article by Joanna Apap and Angelina Tchorbadjiyska in the CEPS Working Documents series, the main underlying obstacle to a good and open partnership between the EU and the candidate states, and in turn between the enlarged EU and its neighbours, is a lack of trust towards the EU’s neighbours.
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?
Read the article in full on the CEPS website
.
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.
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