Challenge Conference : Democratic Control and Judicial Accountability in an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

4th, 5th & 6th July 2007

Place du Congrès 1, 1000 Brussels

Although a majority of the Member States has ratified the draft Constitutional Treaty, which would provide a clear new institutional framework for the EU, its future has just been resolved at the end of June. The construction of an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice represents an important example where an improved institutional framework is desirable not only to improve coherency and transparency of the decision-making processes, but also in order to enhance the degree of democratic control and judicial accountability applying to these policies. Will the new framework foster confidence on the part Europe’s citizens in an environment of freedom? The 4th Annual Conference of the CHALLENGE project (Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security) will address these and other issues closely related to the role played by democratic oversight and judicial control at the European and national levels towards the building of a common European space of Freedom, Security and Justice.

The event will include presentations examining the way in which current institutional mechanisms, bodies and procedures applicable to these policy areas have an impact on the changing relationship between freedom and security. At the heart of these discussions are the implications of new security policies for individual liberties.

The CHALLENGE project is funded by the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission. It seeks to facilitate a more responsive and responsible assessment of the rules and practices of security, and it examines the implications of these practices for civil liberties, human rights and social cohesion in an enlarged Europe. Some 23 universities and research centres from all across Europe participate in the project.

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Programm : Democratic Control and Judicial Accountability in an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

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