This particular paper focuses on the challenges posed by balancing migration policies and keeping the EU security politics democratic. It also discusses the challenges posed by the need for an accorded migration policy between the EU and Mediterranean countries, and especially Greece.
The EU’s stance towards the migration issue in the Mediterranean is constituted either by lack of policies or according to Amnesty International by measures resulting or contributing to serious human rights violations. Also, a growing literature on EU’s obsession for border over-securitisation raises questions about its existing institutional structures and its role as a normative power. On the other side, it is argued that the EU is a model for regional cooperation, where values like democracy and human rights protection are on the core of its philosophy.
The paper puts a spotlight on the paradoxical schism between the EU’s philosophy and its strategy towards migration. This contradiction is a great opportunity for analysing EU’s future regarding migration, multiculturalism and diversity.
