The Impact of the 9/11 Terrorist Attack on the Evolution of EU's Security Policies

The thesis deals with the impact of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on the evolution of EU's security policies. The thesis's aim is to investigate whether this event led to tightening of security measures in the European Union as well as to reviewing the existing security policy under the influence of the United States of America. The first section deals with the development of European security institutions before terrorist attack 9/11 and after, with the aim to ellucidate changes at the level of institutions. The second section analyzes individual security policy areas, such as EU's immigration policy, transnational police cooperation and the protection of EU citizens's personal data