. 37. The emerging terrorist groups stimulate the Islamic radicalization phenomenon at European level, highlighting the risks posed by returning to the community environment of the European jihadists, who were had been previously engaged in fights or training programs in states having a very active terrorist agenda. 38. The intensification of migration from the conflict areas or from areas with a poor economic situation has generated challenges to the capability of some member states to manage the flow of ilegal immigrants and integrate those into the local community. 2.3. The Regional Security Environment 39. At regional and sub‐regional level, the environment in which Romania defends and promotes its values, principles and interests is going through a new phase of reconfiguration. The current security dynamics may impact both directly and indirectly upon Romania's security situation and the security of its citizens. 40. Romania has an obligation to maintain the strategic balance at the crossroads of some regional security complexes, but also to contribute to the strengthening of the Europeanization process by gradual extension of the European environment of freedom, prosperity, security and justice. 41. Regional cooperation, by strengthening the Eastern and Southern dimensions of the vicinity policies of the European Union, has undergone a constant increase. 42. The Russian Federation is trying to consolidate its status as a power at the regional level, its actions having an impact upon regional stability and the European path of Ukraine, The Republic of Moldova and Georgia. 43. The perpetuation of instability in the Western Balkans generates populist, extremist, radical and even fundamentalist sideslips by deepening some historical cleavages and by infringing upon the rights of the ethnical communities, encouraging thus organized crime and corruption. 44. The regional energetic architecture may undergo alterations determined by possible syncopes in exploiting energetic resources in the Pontic area and developing some energetic projects competitive to those supported by the European Union and Romania. 45. Questioning the liberal values system, the sideslips from the state law rules and regulations, the authoritarian drives in exerting power; exacerbation of the nationalist and populist discourse determines the increase of regional instability and the decrease of the security feeling in the area. 13