EU frontiers will become the hard borders?

Abstract

The shock of refugee crisis from the fall of 2015 and terrorism in European Union space has called again into question the topic of European borders. In the present paper we intend to show that the process of the European integration has been marked by the division within the EU especially after the last enlargement eastward (2004/2007) take forms of fragmentation. Initally, the financial and economic crisis has produced new forms of division which have fragmentation aspect designed to create new European borders in the area of EU, but related to the internal process harmonization. Secondly, the Ukranian crisis, due the implications on external security of European Union, will multiply the fragmentation, but in this case being disputed the national security of the states located on the eastern borders of the EU. Finally, the refugee crisis has led to a real psychosis of security not only at the external borders of the European Union but also to the internal borders reaching national security sensitivities of member states, hence there is danger that the EU not only to close between hard borders but to bring the European project decades ago.