PROVOCĂRILE ACTUALE ALE UNIUNII EUROPENE
EUROPEAN UNION PRESENT CHALLENGES

Summary/Abstract: The European Union is experiencing what many consider to be the worst migration and refugee crisis since World War II as people flee conflict and poverty, primarily in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa, but also in South Asia and some Western Balkans countries. Estimates suggest that over 1 million refugees and migrants sought to enter the European Union in 2015, and over 80,000 have done so thus far in 20161. As European governments struggle to cope with the flows of people, the European Union has been widely criticized for lacking a coherent migration and asylum policy. Forging European Union measures has long been difficult because of national sovereignty concerns and sensitivities about minorities, integration, and identity. In this complex and dynamic context, the European security is subjected to both internal and external challenges. As far as the internal security challenges are concerned, one may take into account social, economic, energetic, demographic, political and cultural challenges. The external security challenges consist, in my opinion, firstly in: globalization, the contemporary economic and financial crisis, global trade, international migration, the proximity to some frozen conflicts, international terrorism and international crime. The primordial problem of the imigration wave, that worries the population from the destination countries is the possible terrorist threat.

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