Abstract
In 1957, the Treaty of Rome mentioned the elimination of border controls within its territory as a goal of the EEC (European Economic Union). This implied that the member states would sooner or later have to address the question of deciding on common rules concerning access to their soil through the process of spill-over. However, the issue of immigration started to appear in the EU (European Union) political agenda (Uçarer, 2003, p. 295) only in the mid-1970s. Today there is a demand for closer integration in that field, but one may argue that "the EU has no need for a common immigration policy".
