North African Events and the European Union’s Common Space of Freedom, Security and Justice Cover Image

Wydarzenia w Afryce Północnej a przestrzeń wolności, bezpieczeństwa i sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej
North African Events and the European Union’s Common Space of Freedom, Security and Justice

Author(s): Piotr K. Rakowski, Michał Nodzykowski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: European Union; EU; Arab Spring; North Africa; Middle East;

Summary/Abstract: The tense situation in the southern part of the Mediterranean has many adverse implications for international relations. One result of the North African developments is a high migration/asylum pressure from the region’s inhabitants on European Union member states. Even though the EU has been the target of such pressure for years—in what seems to be a natural outcome of migratory and refugee movements from poorer and endangered regions to stable areas—the present situation is indeed special.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 21-38
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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