Forms of Fragmentation or the European “Border Anxiety”?
Forms of Fragmentation or the European “Border Anxiety”?

Summary/Abstract: The shock of refugee crisis from the fall of 2015 and terrorism inEuropean Union space has called again into question the topic of European borders. In thepresent paper we intend to show that the process of the European integration has beenmarked by the division within the EU especially after the last enlargement eastward(2004/2007) took forms of fragmentation. Initally, the financial and economic crisis hasproduced new forms of division which have fragmentation aspects designed to create newEuropean 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 thestates located on the eastern borders of the EU. Finally, the refugee crisis has led to a realpsychosis of security not only at the external borders of the European Union but also at theinternal borders reaching national security sensitivities of Member States, hence there isdanger that the EU may close between hard borders and postpone the European project fordecades.

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