%0 Journal Article
%T Visa-Free Travel: Is It Working as an EU Foreign Policy Tool?
%A Zeynep £¿zler
%A Ilke Toyg¨¹r
%J Interdisciplinary Political Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%X The issue of visa-free travel has become a highly-debated issue within EU foreign policy. As the momentum for enlargement diminshes, the EU has started offering visa liberalisation as an incentive to influence reforms in countries across the EU¡¯s neighbourhood. There appears to be significant potential in this approach: polls show that visa liberalisation is one of the tangible benefits non-EU citizens aspire to reap from the Union. The EU has recently offered a raft of agreements on visa liberalisation. It has attached conditionality to these agreements by requiring far-reaching reforms in the justice and home affairs area of signatory countries. However, are these agreements working as a influential foreign policy and integration tools?
%U http://www.idps.unisi.it/file_download/15/06_Visa-free_Travel.pdf