Surma I.V. Legislative countermeasures and migration component of the new “soft threat” to the European Union

Abstract: Based on the comparative legal approach, this article analyzes the modern migration processes and the processes of liberalization of migration legislation within the European Union and the Brussel’s attempts to build protection of its external boundaries in order to confront the new “soft threat” to its security. The European legislation, legislation of separate European states in the area of migration policy, as well as the international legal regulation on the issues of migration are being reviewed in the course of this research. The author examines various social-economic factors that encourage the illegal migration into the European states, as well as individual structures of the EU responsible for fighting against illegal migration (European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union – Frontex). It is stated that the realization of “democratic reforms” by Western countries lead to the onset of total chaos due to the fact that the local population of African and Asian states found themselves on the edge of the humanitarian disaster. It is evident that the amount of refugees in Europe has grown significantly. However, despite the negative experience of previous policy changes with “good intentions”, the EU continues to have the same policy with regards to a number of countries including Ukraine and Syria, further worsening the “push factor” of migration within these regions of the world.

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