Introduction – Liberty, security and EU borders.
[libertysecurity.org] Borders lie at the heart of the European project. Historically, the European political project has been underpinned by a discourse on the necessary liberalisation of movement, on the freedom of individuals to move across borders as a way to overcome chauvinist trends in European national politics and supersede state practices in the control of borders and territory that were seen as leading towards exclusion, hostility, and war. This orientation came to be encapsulated in the so-called ‘four freedoms’, enshrined in Community law by the 1957 treaty of Rome.
