La agenda de ampliación de la UE como agenda de seguridadEl caso de los Balcanes occidentales. Liberalización de visados y gestión de la crisis de refugiados

Abstract

This paper will address the way in which the EU relates bilaterally with the Western Balkan countries through the principle of conditionality and how it is used in a more political than technical way in its application. From there, it is possible to extrapolate this specific action towards what are the processes and objectives that it really pursues. The starting point is the process of building a Wide Europe / Wider Europe and the formsit adopts based on the pragmatic interests of the different actors that are part of the process, especially the MS. This is the framework from which the two policies that constitute the axis of the work are analyzed, the visa liberalization policy and the process of outsourcing migration policy, in the context of the EU enlargement process towards the Western Balkans and its impact on the process of Europeanization of these countries through the formula of the principle of conditionality already used in previous enlargements...