Trafficking and prostitution of foreigners in the context of the E.U. countries' policy about prostitution

The question that this paper is going to explore is: “How are the positions of the foreign (willing) prostitute and of the trafficked woman connected with the States’ consideration of prostitution?” During the Nineties the presence of foreign women in prostitution has increased in all the E. U. states, and this change has been paralleled by many changes in the laws concerning prostitution, introducing new concepts, like "neo-regulationism2, not based on a moral condemnation and legal discrimination of the prostitute, and a “neo-prohibitionism”, through the criminalizion of the client. In spite of all these changes, the position of a foreign prostitute has not changed, sometimes it has worsened. At the best she can be protected (in a few countries) as a victim of trafficking, but the lack of a legal possibility of exchanging sex for money blurs the categories of the “trafficked woman”.