Immigration, Integration and Citizenship : The Nexus in the EU

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PROGRAMME

What is the link between immigration, integration and citizenship in the context of a comprehensive EU policy on immigration relating to third-country nationals? All three dimensions have increasingly been put at the top of the policy agenda for the European Union. The second Multiannual Programme dealing with an «Area of Freedom, Security and Justice» - The Hague Programme - presents the integration of migrants as one of the ten strategic priorities for the next five years. The European Commission has recently published a Communication on «A Common Agenda for Integration» which represents the first response for the establishment of a coherent EU framework on integration, and that provides concrete measures putting the «Common Basic Principles on Integration» into practice.

This seminar will discuss the nexus between immigration, integration and citizenship. The objective is to look at how the three policy issues have recently come together under a common EU policy on immigration, and to evaluate this development with regard to intrinsic criteria such as effectiveness and proportionality as well as extrinsic criteria such as legitimacy, non-discrimination, fundamental rights and social cohesion.

25 January 2006

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Place du Congrès 1

1000 Brussels

Conference Room

9:30 Registration

9:45 Welcome & opening remarks by Sergio Carrera(CEPS)

10:00 - 11:15 Immigration and IntegrationChair: Kees Groenendijk(Radboud University of Nijmegen)

Jean-Louis de Brouwer(Directorate-General Justice Freedom and Security, European Commission), Immigration and Integration: Latest Developments and The European Commission’s Role

Paul Hickey(DG Jus tice and Home Affairs, Council of the European Union), A Common EU Framework on Integration: The Position of the Council

Rinus Penninx(Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, IMES), The Nexus between Immigration and Integration

Leonard Besselink(Utrecht University), Free Movement Rights and Integration Requirements: A Dutch Perspective

Discussant: Elspeth Guild(CEPS)

11:15 - 11:45 Open Discussion

11:45 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00 Integration and Citizenship

Chair: Sergio Carrera(CEPS)

Gerard-René de Groot(Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht), Citizenship and Integration Requirements: A Comparative Perspective

Joanna Apap(European Parliament), The Relationship between Integration and Citizenship

Jan Niessen(Migration Policy Group), Integration of migrants, naturalization and civic citizenship

Discussant: Didier Bigo(Sciences Po, Paris)

13:00 - 13:45 Open Discussion

14:00 - Lunch

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