Under Control? Or Border (as) Conflict: Reflections on the European Border Regime

Arab Revolts and the Crisis of the European Border Regime

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

VISPILOT - Towards European Biometric Visa Border Control

To thoroughly prepare the expected start of the European Visa Information System (VIS) in 2011, Germany has implemented and evaluated the biometric visa border control process in a dedicated pilot project. In addition to implementing all necessary software modules for the access to the VIS, the focus of the project was set on the new feature of fingerprint biometrics. Fingerprint verification i...

Recuperation through Crisis - Talk : Apprehending the European Border Regime as a

The diagnosis of a migration crisis has prompted multiple processes of rebordering in Europe and beyond. These include the build-up of physical barriers like walls and fences, the tightening of asylum regimes, the expansion of biometric databases and the enrolment of authoritarian regimes in controlling Europe’s borders. These developments have prompted a revival of the image of the ‘fortress’ ...

Cross-border Co-operation as Policy Entrepreneurship: Explaining the Variable Success of European Cross-border Regions

The article addresses the recent proliferation of Cross-Border Regions, or Euroregions, across the EU. It aims to explain why they have been more successfully institutionalised in some areas while they have had less success in others. It conceptualises Euroregions as the outcome of policy entrepreneurship strategies through which support is mobilised on the local level and the Euroregions are i...