Governance of the External Borders of the European Union
Governance of the External Borders of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: External borders of the European Union are a febrile topic of the recent years. Apart from the continental area, EU has inherited a huge potential, arising from the former colonies of the nowadays member states. Although they are remote and insular, some of them are very connected to EU, especially at the governance level. Still their political status have long before changed from that of colonies, but today there is no uniformity in what concerns this matter. The question is how did they evolve and which is the specificity of their own governance in relation to the member state and to EU? The answer can be achieved analysing each case, a pretty difficult task. Thus methodologically must blend the analysis of the official documents, of the legal texts and of the specialised literature in order to establish the competences attributed to each of the governance levels: local, national and European. The subject is imminently related to that of soft and hard border, even if the intention is not to establish a certain dichotomy. It is a trend among the remote territories to fight for a more autonomous position, consequence of their own specificities, being scattered in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans or even in ice covered lands.

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