As a mechanism to address the particular problems of areas of border in Europe, for a long time, it has been promoting cross-border cooperation as development policy, both from the local level as national. However, the first case of cross-border...
Control of external borders as a tool for security: an approach to the new legal framework for Frontex (in Spanish)
This paper deals with a legal analysis of the European area of freedom, security and justice, arising from the Treaty of Lisbon. Your application and configuration, highlights the evolution of competences, the Union and Member States, in terms of...
The Creation of FRONTEX and the Politics of Institutionalisation in the EU External Borders Policy
In a context of high politicization of the asylum and migration in Europe, the European Agency for the management of operational cooperation at the external borders of the States members of the EU–also known by its acronym FRONTEX –...
Towards a new Europe. Some reflections on the consequences of enlargement to the East (in Spanish)
The article identifies the strategic challenges of Europe and, in particular, European integration will have to face in the coming years. Challenges resulting from enlargement to the East of the European Union (EU) and their participation in an...
Spain imagines the Balkans. Building bridges to the ”European Other” in Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (in Spanish)
The Balkan region has been traditionally represented as a European “periphery” and “other European” in Western discourse since the 18th century. These speeches have been embodied in the texts of different travellers,...
Advances in the control of borders: cooperation, information and technology (in Spanish)
Recent advances of Western countries in cooperation, information and technology for the management of irregular migration are analyzed in the light of the security concerns expressed by attacks by Islamic jihadists in the West. Lessons learned...