ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the politics of instrumentation of European Union (EU) Readmission Agreement (EURA) from a third country perspective. It scrutinizes the role of EU incentives and third countries' preferences in the negotiations of this policy instrument, which has been originally designed as a new policy instruments in the construction of rational and orderly immigration regimes. The chapter evidences the transformations affecting the governance of migration, through the study of the specific policy instrument used in the EU's remote control policy with third countries. It argues that third countries are not passive actors when confronted to the externalization of border controls and are able to influence to some extent the EU. The chapter shows that a series of obstacles forced the EU to revise the design of EURA. It finds that third countries' political domestic and regional dynamics constrains the politics of EURA instrumentation.
