External border of the European Union

Map of the EU (as of 2013)

The border of the European Union consists of the borders with the countries which are not members of the European Union.

List of bilateral borders

1. Albania–Greece border
2. Andorra-France border
3. Andorra-Spain border
4. Austria–Liechtenstein border
5. Austria–Switzerland border
6. Belarus-Latvia border
7. Belarus-Lithuania border
8. Belarus–Poland border
9. Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia border
10. Brazil-France border
11. Bulgaria–Republic of Macedonia border
12. Bulgaria–Serbia border
13. Bulgaria–Turkey border
14. Croatia–Montenegro border
15. Croatia–Serbia border
16. Estonia–Russia border
17. Finland–Norway border
18. Finland–Russia border
19. France-Sint Maarten border
20. France–Switzerland border
21. Germany–Switzerland border
22. Greece–Republic of Macedonia border
23. Greece–Turkey border
24. Hungary–Serbia border
25. Hungary–Ukraine border
26. Italy–San Marino border
27. Italy–Switzerland border
28. Italy-Vatican City border
29. Latvia–Russia border
30. Lithuania–Russia border
31. Moldova–Romania border
32. Norway–Sweden border
33. Poland–Russia border
34. Poland–Ukraine border
35. Romania–Serbia border
36. Romania–Ukraine border
37. Slovakia–Ukraine border

Border status and cooperation

In 2004 the European Union developed the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) for the promotion of cooperation between the EU and its neighbors to the East and South of the European territory of the EU (i.e., excluding its outermost regions), which, in part, includes the Cross-Border Cooperation programme aimes at the promotion of economic development in border areas and ensure border security.

External links

• Grigore Silaşi, Ovidiu Laurian Simina (eds.), Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union: Space of Freedom and Security, 2008, Editura Universităţii de Vest, ISBN 978-973-125-160-8