The European Parliament on April 6,2017,allows Ukrainians with e-passports the right to visit most EU states for up to 90 days, for tourism or business reasons. Artur Widak/Press Association. All rights reserved.The 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome is a perfect opportunity for a debate on the challenges the EU is currently facing. Analysis of public discourse as well as of actions undertaken by the EU institutions, and the results of public opinion surveys prove that migration has become one of the key areas of European Union policy.
The question even arises of whether the increasing influx of refugees over the past couple of years could contribute to the collapse or the breakup of the European Union[1]. It is certain that the uncontrolled influx of the migrants from countries outside the EU and the blows to solidarity among member countries have contributed to the debate concerning both EU immigration policy and the very principles on which the European Union is based.
The year 2015 saw the beginning of mobilization of Union institutions as well as of member countries concerning attempts to solve the so-called refugee problem. The uncontrolled influx of foreigners from non-EU countries applying for international protection was soon referred to as the greatest migration crisis since World War II. Soon it was clear that different EU member countries were characterised not only by a different scale of the influx of immigrants, but primarily by differing attitudes to the solution of the refugee problem.
