Eastern partnership between the permeability and impermeability of EU Eastern borders
Eastern partnership between the permeability and impermeability of EU Eastern borders

Summary/Abstract: Discussing about the permeability / impermeability of the Eastern or Southern EU borders from the economic perspective, in relation with the European Neighbourhood Policy, one can observe the oscillation between permeable frontiers before the economic crisis that erupted within the EU and impermeable borders during the crisis. In 2008 the European Commission observed that the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has not reached the desired parameters, considering that they cover a space that is too wide. In our opinion the economic minuses of the ENP were not due to only to the program itself, but also to the effects of the economic crisis that hit the EU. The fact that the ENP was split in the Euro-Mediterranean Union (2008), the Eastern Partnership and the Synergy of the Black Sea in 2009 can be seen as a measure of stimulation of the involvement of the Neighbouring policy. But under a rational analysis regarding the economic successes of the three programs we cannot sustain with many arguments that they produced a major mutation in the stimulation of the economic connections along the external frontiers. As a consequence, we can conclude that the apparition of the crisis led to the loss of permeability of the external EU frontiers which was replaced by the impermeability process of the external EU borders.

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