‘The Formation of the Migration Regime of the European Union’ – E. Comte

Emmanuel Comte participated in a Collective Volume on ‘The Formation of the Migration Regime of the European Union’ in: Steven van Hecke and Mathieu Segers (eds.), Cambridge History of the European Union, Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Emmanuel Comte‘s contribution discusses the inside-out perspective of the Union’s evolution. The chapter titled ‘The Formation of the Migration Regime of the European Union’ deciphers how German-led negotiations from the 1950s moulded Europe into a free migration zone. It also analyses the role of the Treaty of Maastricht and EU’s post-Cold War expansion in creating an intricate relationship between internal liberalisation and external constraints, a factor that significantly influenced Britain’s exit.