THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION'S INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SECURITY - A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION'S INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SECURITY - A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: If we were to consider it from a traditional perspective, the field of “internal security” - political stability, crime fighting, public order - was considered to be distinct from the “external security” - conflict management, military and civilian operations - despite the unanimously accepted interdependencies, such as that internal stability promotes external peace and vice versa. The involvement of the internal security actors, such as the police force and law- making and law enforcement institutions, on the one hand, and diplomatic agents and armed forces, on the other hand, has led to the further of independence, of course, relative, of these two dimensions of security. However, the increasingly blurred delimitation between external threats and internal threats, the internationalization of terrorism or organized crime, the uncontrolled migration generated by the fundamental changes in the organization of nation societies, have caused the blurring of the existing gap between internal and external security. This article aims to analyse the issue of complementarity and interdependence between the normative framework on which the European Union's internal security policy and external policy are built, with emphasis on the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon and the European acquis in the field have had on the existing political and legal system.

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