Conference : Terrorism, Migration and Asylum: EU perspectives

EU PERSPECTIVES

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Conference Room

Place du Congrès, 1

1000 Brussels, Belgium

15th February 2007

Since 9/11 and the consequent attacks in London and Madrid it has not been long until ‘the foreigner’ came into the focus of legislative and administrative measures at national, Europan and international level aiming at enhancing security. At least in this aspect – opposite to the question whether to join the US led ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in the ‘Global War on Terrorism’ - there has been common ground and mutual understanding among EU Member States.

This conference, jointly organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the Centre for Migration Law (CMR), Nijmegen seeks to shed light on the question how access to the European Union and the legal status of immigrants and asylum seekers has changed in recent years and how this trend is related to counterterrorism measures adopted at national and EU level. A topic, particularly addressed will be whether and how far situations have come into existence, which would be considered to be in conflict with human rights and fundamental principles, like the rule of law.

The conference will be concluded by the launch of a new book focussing on these questions: ‘Terrorism and the Foreigner – A Decade of Tension around the Rule of Law in Europe’, edited by Anneliese Baldaccini and Elspeth Guild published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden. This volume results from a three-year research project - ELISE - funded by the European Commission (DG Research) under the 5th Framework Programme for Research studying the changing relationship between freedom and security in Europe.

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DRAFT PROGRAMME

12:00-13:30 Registration and Lunch

13:30-15:00 PANEL I:‘THE EUROPEANISATION OF TERRORISM AND THE FOREIGNER’

Chair: Elspeth Guild, (CEPS and Centre for Migration Law, Nijmegen).

Anneliese Baldaccini (Advisor to the U.K. House of Lords EU Select Committee): General overview.

Jan Sikuta (Judge of the European Court of Human Rights):

Threats of terrorism and the European Court of Human Rights.

Martin Scheinin (Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism):

Profiling and counter-terrorism

Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto):

A view from Canada.

Dick Oosting (Director, Amnesty International, EU Office):

The human rights perspective of counter terrorism measures in the EU.

Comments: Vivienne Jabri (King’s College London).

15:00-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-17:00 PANEL II:‘TERRORISM AND THE FOREIGNER: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES’

Chair: Jan Niessen, (Director, Migration Policy Group).

Didier Bigo (Sciences- Po, Paris): France.

Florian Geyer (CEPS): Germany.

Armando Spataro (Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Milano) &

Nicola Piacente(Deputy Prosecutor, Milano): Italy.

Helen Oosterom (Tilburg University): The Netherlands.

Javaid Rehman (Brunel University, London): United Kingdom.

Comments: Angela Liberatore (Scientific Officer, European Commission).

17:00-17:30 Closing remarks by Elspeth Guild (CEPS and Centre for Migration Law, Nijmegen).

17:30-18:00 Launch of the book ‘Terrorism and the Foreigner: a decade of tension around the Rule of Law in Europe’ and reception.

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