THE WIDER AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE : EU NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY AND JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS

30th November 2007

Venue: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Conference Room

Place du Congrès 1, 1000 Brussels

ENEPO – EU Eastern Neighbourhood: Economic Potential and Future Developmentis a specific targeted research project funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union. Its main objective is to examine the potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) to upgrade the relations between the enlarged EU and the new independent states (NIS) of the former USSR in the spheres of trade, investment, labour movement, technical cooperation, and to speed up economic and governance reforms in NIS, with special attention given to mutual interdependence between these cooperation areas.

This conference focuses on the Justice and Home Affairs elements in the European Neighbourhood Policy and in particular those related to the movement of persons. It is the first conference to be organised by the ENEPO project in Brussels. Local organizer is the JHA Unit of CEPS which is also the coordinator of CHALLENGE, another FP6 project dealing with the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

With regard to the first official ENP conference at ministerial level held this September in Brussels and which has been characterised as a ‘listening exercise’ for the EU this ENEPO conference constitutes a timely occasion for the broader public to participate in the ongoing debate. The event aims at EU policy makers, academics and NGOs. It is open to the public and free of charge. Registration required.

DRAFT PROGRAMME

9:45 – 10:15 Registration

10:15 – 10:45 Welcome and introduction by Elspeth Guild(CEPS / Radboud University of Nijmegen),

Marek Dabrowski(CASE) and Dominik Sobczak(DG Research, European Commission)

10:45 – 12:30 THE NEXUS BETWEEN EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (ENP) AND JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS (JHA)

Chair: Marek Dabrowski

Wouter van de Rijt(General Secretariat, Council of the EU), Justice and Home Affairs in the European Neighbourhood Policy

Tobias King(DG RELEX, European Commission),TBCHuman Rights, Security and Neighbours

Nicole Wichmann(University of Luzern), The intersection between JHA and ENP: stocktaking, logics, objectives and practices

Thierry Balzacq(University of Namur), Borders and neighbours

Discussants: Bogdan Klich, TBC(MEP) and Julien Jeandesboz(Sciences-Po, Paris)

Open Discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15.00 THE GLOBAL APPROACH TO MIGRATION AND THE EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN NEIGHBOURS

Chair: Florian Geyer (CEPS)

Xavier Chojnicki,(CEPII) & Ainura Uzagalieva(CASE), Demographic evolutions of the EU and the Neighbourhood regions

Agnieszka Weinar,(DG JLS, European Commission), Applying the Global Approach to Migration to the EU Eastern and South-Eastern Neighbours

Elspeth Guild, Assessing ENP policy from the perspective of migration and asylum

Discussant: Hilkka Becker(Immigrant Council of Ireland) and Sergio Carrera(CEPS)

Open Discussion

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES (NIS) AS NEIGHBOURS: VISA, MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES

Chair: Elspeth Guild

Toman Omar Mahmoud(Kiel Institute for World Economy) Outward migration and remittances

John O’Rourke(DG RELEX, European Commission), EU migration policies in the context of external relations with the NIS

Peter Hobbing(CEPS), From Soviet style to Schengen standards: changing border structures for the new neighbours

Discussants: Angelina Tchorbadjiyska,(European Institut Sofia, Brussels Office) and Silvia Lips(Citizenship and Migration Board, Tallinn)

Open Discussion

Closing Remarks by Elspeth Guild and Marek Dabrowski

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