The enlargement of the EU is supposed to have a profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, the corresponding empirical...

The enlargement of the EU is supposed to have a profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, the corresponding empirical...

This article argues that the social construction of the borders of Europe is the combined effect of a historical trajectory in which the construction of its outer and its inner boundaries interact. These boundaries make sense to the people...

Since Antiquity, the Mediterranean connects its neighbors in various ways. Under influence of conflicts between Christianity and Islam and between the West and the Orient, common ways of life and ongoing cultural exchange could not prevent the...

The Schengen agreements and other normative instruments adopted by the European Union (EU) to ensure freedom of movement in the territory of the Member States, are closely linked to the other side of this process: the control of external borders....

The border of Ceuta, called by some analysts as “a frontier of frontiers”, makes the city a migratory stage unique and hardly comparable with other regions not only at European level, but even worldwide. The peculiarity of this...