ABSTRACT
Free movement, immigration and asylum were drawn to the very centre of the European Union (EU) by the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) and subsequent developments such as the Tampere summit meeting of heads of government in October 1999. At Tampere the of government expressed the desire to create common migration and asylum policies within what has been rather grandiosely entitled 'an area of freedom, justice and security'. Simultaneously, efforts to consolidate and strengthen the single European market have attempts to stimulate intra-EU migration as a component part of the 'Lisbon agenda' for economic reform and its bold intention for Europe to be the world's leading knowledge economy by 2010.
