This paper captures the contradictions at the heart of the European Union's (EU) security approach in Eastern Europe … and reveals their implications in practice. The EU's security approach towards the states at its Eastern borders has been …

tested in the context of unsolved conflicts which characterised the security environment in the East European neighbourhood … area. We set out to analyse the main strategies, security policies and tools used by the EU in relationship with the … countries of the Eastern Partnership, in response to various kinds of security problems in the region. The coherence of the …

) cross border crime, including drugs smuggling, terrorism, fraud, corruption, organised crime, police and customs co …