Impact of the Schengen Regime on Slovak-Ukrainian Relations
Impact of the Schengen Regime on Slovak-Ukrainian Relations

Author(s): Alexander Duleba
Subject(s): Politics, Economic policy, International relations/trade, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Slovakia; Ukraine; foreign policy; relations; Schengen regime; impact;
Summary/Abstract: Strategic planning and the consequent reforms that have been undertaken in Slovakia within the EU accession process in the field of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) over the last three years - including approximation of the EU acquis, adjusting foreign migration policies, allocation of various financial sources, improving the maintenance and supply of border service and building new administrative capacities have been following a strategic priority that results from the very fact that the Slovak - Ukrainian border became an external border of the enlarged EU whereas the Slovak borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary became inner borders within the EU. As to the Schengen Action Plan of the Slovak Republic adopted in August 2001, Slovak authorities expect that Slovakia will fully cope with the Schengen acquis - including implementation of the Schengen information system - by 2007, which is the year when Slovakia is supposed to be fully integrated into the Schengen area and join the Schengen Treaty.

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