ABSTRACT
The analysis developed in the last two chapters allow me to present the European Union as the expression of a possible overcoming of the state that is nonetheless never completed. This is particularly clear as we look at the role of migration from the former socialist states, which made for a source of concern in the course of the enlargement: this issue exposed several weaknesses in the European institutional setting and still today it may provide a provocative reference as the same countries are among the most problematic when it comes to the current migration debate in Europe. I believe so because the issues concerning migrations in the course of the enlargement represented a historico-political transition that is all the more relevant today as nationalist governments try to reassert the role of the state vis-à-vis transnational dynamics.
