...the European Union's Claim to Territorial Unity. "Legal and political analyses tend to downplay the problem of spatiality evoked in the notion of an "Area" of Freedom, Security and Justice, focusing instead on the distinct policy fields covered by this triad of values. Whatever its merits, this analytic strategy neglects the central claim hidden in what seems to be but a flatulent title: the close of space into a legal place, into a bounded region, is ingredient to the very possibility and concrete realisation of freedom, security and justice." (Quoted from paper)