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Articles in this set

• Break for the border

  The Schengen area and enlargement policy are coming under increasing strain.
  

• The haves and the have-nots

  The EU's borders are much tighter in some areas than others, and that can cause problems.
  

• Conflicts expose weakness in the EU's enlargement policy

  The problems in Cyprus cast doubt on the EU's claims that enlargement can help solve territorial disputes.
  

• Little appetite for Turkish accession

  A complex, close and at times contentious relationship.
  

• A Union punctured by internal and external border hot-spots

  A look at the EU's border issues.
  

Europe's borders

Just as national borders have shaped the identities of Europe's nation-states, so the European Union's have contributed to the way the Union sees itself.

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