Border Policies in the EU

Abstract

This panel addresses the questions of how and why states co-operate on the sensitive issue of border policy. Border policies regulate territorial access of people that seek entry for a short- or medium term stay. In the EU co-operative approaches on these policies are dominant since regional integration in the 1990s. At this point in time the EU took a further step in promoting uncontrolled freedom of movement of persons across internal EU member state borders. Ever more policy co-operation takes place on internal and external EU borders. Such cooperation goes beyond EU borders and includes countries located at its periphery and further away. However, international border policy cooperation is not an EU phenomenon only. Therefore, approaches are of interest that are comparative and look at EU and non-EU countries. The analysis of border policies and the motivation of actors to seek cooperation internationally are central to participants of this panel.

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