ABSTRACT
The international organization known as the European Community and called the European Union (EU) has undergone a massive transformation. Each successive period has witnessed changes in the economic and the wider political agenda and in their interrelationship, with uneven consequences for the overall process of integration. This chapter investigates the possible avenues of development of policing within the EU. Since the signing of the European Economic Community Treaty at Rome in 1957, the fortunes of the EU have waxed and waned. A line of analysis is less concerned with new trends in transnational deviance and more with how certain international movements affect the domestic security context. The broadest and most important discourse affecting the course of European police cooperation is the discourse of European integration itself. A public political discourse supporting enhanced European police cooperation is the discourse of internal security.
