Perspectivas do 'Espaço Schengen' do Continente Europeu: liberdade, segurança, ambas ou nenhuma?

Abstract

The European integration's experience is based on a democratic and open system, meaning that the freedom of movement within the European Union (considered as the paradigm of European integration) represents a central axis of the Union's very configuration. However, and like what happens in any Human Society, freedom's extent must be coupled with the maintenance of the essential safety conditions to securing that very freedom. The difficult balance between freedom and security, implying an adequate management of both values, is particularly hard, challenging the European Union and, for what matters to this study, the "Schengen Area".