The Ukrainian Crisis, the Crimean Referendum and Security Implications for the European Union
Journal: University of Derby Online Research Archive. (University of Derby)
Year: 2014

The establishment of the European Union as a zone of stability and prosperity in Europe is confronted today with new security challenges. For the first time since the break‐up of Yugoslavia and the wars of Yugoslav Transition in the first half of the 1990s, the EU finds itself with an unpredictable neighbour on its borders, which has resorted to the use of military force and continues to influence the territorial integrity of a sovereign state. The issue was over the trans‐border Russian populat