The impossible triangle: democracy, security, stability. The Construction of Wider Europe in the context of Russian invasion of Ukraine

Autor principal:
Ruth Ferrero Turrión (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Programa:
Sesión 2, Sesión 2
Día: miércoles, 7 de septiembre de 2022
Hora: 12:30 a 14:15
Lugar: Aula 037

In this session European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) it will be considered as a policy externalization tool to achieve three main goals: Democracy, Security and Stability.  European Union is building up a Wider Europe using this mechanism in a double way trying to achieve security and economic influence but forgetting democracy. Our hypothesis pretends to show that EU, through this approach, is looking to create an area of stability more than a democratic region based on the so-called European values (art. 2 EUT). In this respect, concentric circles are being built as a sort of wider and liquid external border in which rights and values are not anymore, a pre-requisite to have the so-called European perspective.  This neo-medieval situation leads towards contradictions inside the EU itself because approaches, rights and demands differ depending on the circle the country belongs.  Those circles start with the founding Member States, followed by the rest of Eurozone countries as the second one and the EU- non-eurozone being the third one. The fourth will be the one composed of candidate countries and the last one country belonging to the ENP.  Some of the positions can be observed in the resettlement quotas and the position that different Member States took around those, voluntary or compulsory and the distributive criteria, being the first three circles very clearly drawn on their demands. This theoretical framework will be applied in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Palabras clave: Seguridad, democracia, estabilidad, Unión Europea