The first Challenge Training School: Perspectives on the European Neighbourhood Policy

Venue: Place du Congrès, 1

1000 Brussels

21-22 April 2006

DRAFT PROGRAMME

The conduct and experience of integration between the EU and its neighbours creates a unique institutional framework of comprehensive political cooperation. With heightened international concerns about insecurity and illegal migration, the field of Justice, Freedom and Security is now set at the centre of second-generation agreements, new Association Agreements and Action Plans.

This two-day Training Seminar seeks to examine various aspects of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the domains of visa policy, illegal migration and readmission agreements, asylum and cooperation in the field of international security (terrorism, the fight against the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction).

Friday 21 April 2006

9:00 - 9:15 Registration

9:15 - 9:45 Keynote speaker: Mr. Rutger WISSELS, Director of Directorate D: European Neighbourhood Policy Co-ordination, European Commission, DG External Relations

Chair: Daniel Gros, Director CEPS

9:45 - 10:00 Open questions

10:00 - 11:30 - The EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY : LOGICS, ACTORS, INSTRUMENTS

Chair: Sergio Carrera,CEPS

Elspeth Guild(Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), ENP and EU Borders

Judit Toth(Szeged University, Hungary), The Nexus of Normativity and ENP

Annabelle Roig(UNHCR Brussels, Belgium), The ENP and Refugees’ and Asylum Matters

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 - 13:30 Panel I. Policing by Proxy: The Delocalization of Immigration and Asylum Policies

Chair: Thierry Balzacq,CEPS

Discussant: Annabelle Roig, UNHCR

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen(Aarhus University, Denmark), Bounded Spheres of Protection: The External Dimension of EU Asylum Policy

Sarah Léonard(University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK), The External Dimension of the EU Asylum and Migration Policy. A Comparison of the EU Policies Powards Central and Eastern Europe and Towards North Africa

Paula Garcia Andrade(Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Readmission Agreements and Development Cooperation. A Feasible Challenge for European Neighbourhood Policy ?

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Panel II. Redrawing the Lines: The Challenges of Cross-border Practices

Chair: Thierry Balzacq, CEPS

Discussant: Judit Toth,Szeged University

Nicoletta Pusterla, (CEPS, Belgium), The Impact of the ENP on Cross-border Communities Life. The Cases of Ukraine and Moldova

Daniele Del Bianco and Augusto Gamuzza, (International Institute of Sociology of Gorizia, Italy), Migration and Borders. The Cross-border Co-operation Perspective

Ivaylo Gatev, (Aston University, Birmingham, UK), Europeanizing Ukraine’s Eastern Border: A Critical Perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Panel III. The European Neighbourhood Policy: Institutions, Politics, Discourses

Chair: Sergio Carrera, CEPS

Discussant: Sandra Lavenex, University of Bern

Julien Jeandesboz(Sciences Po Paris, France), Alternative Narratives of the European Neighbourhood Policy

Michele Comelli(Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy), Who’s Responsible for the ENP? An Analysis of the Institutions Involved in the ENP

Helli Tiirmaa-Klaar(University of Helsinki, Finland), Construction that might Not Work: Institutional Limitations of the European Neighbourhood Policy

Saturday 22 April 2006

10:00 - 11:30 - THE EUROPEAN NEIGHOURHOOD POLICY: INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS

Chair: Thierry Balzacq,CEPS

Didier Bigo(Sciences Po Paris, France), Framing the ENP in International Relations

Karen Smith(London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), International Relations and Neighbourhood Policy

Sandra Lavenex(University of Bern, Switzerland), ENP as a Novel Form of Flexible Integration?

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 - 13:00 Panel IV. One Aim, Different Instruments: Conditionality or Socialisation?

Chair: Fabrizio Tassinari,University of Copenhagen/CEPS

Discussants: Gergana Noutcheva,CEPS and Elspeth Guild,CEPS/Radboud University of Nijmegen

Nicole Wichmann(University of Bern, Switzerland), How Does the EU Promote the Rule of Law in the Framework of the ENP?

Elena Baracani(University of Florence, Italy), ENP Political Conditionality: A Comparison between Morocco and Ukraine.

Lili Di Puppo(Free University Berlin, Germany), The European Union Anti-corruption Policy in the South Caucasus in the Framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy

Max Paiano(University of Essex, UK), Carrots and Sticks: Civilian Power EU and ENP: A Theoretical Defense of Political Conditionality

13:00 - Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Panel V. Borders, Neighbours, Security: Grasping the Limits of a Political Ambition

Chair: Gergana Noutcheva, CEPS

Discussant: Karen Smith, London School of Economics and Political Science

Victor D. Bojkov(London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), The Neighbours of an Enlarged EU

Amelia Hadfield(University of Kent, UK), ENP vs EMP: Foreign Policy, Development or Enlargement Lite?

Giselle Bosse(University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK), The European Neighbourhood Policy: Towards a Framework of Analysis

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Panel VI. How the ENP Merges Internal and External Security

Chair: Elspeth Guild,CEPS/Radboud University of Nijmegen

Discussant: Didier Bigo,Sciences Po Paris

Maria A. Sabiote(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), When the European Neighbourhood Policy Confronts ESDP: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Benjamin Kienzle(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), The European Union as a Security Provider in its Neighbourhood: The Case of Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Mediterranean area

Ruben Zaiotti(University of Toronto, Canada), Of Friends and Fences: Security and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)

Sarah Wolff(London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), The European Neighbourhood Policy: Insights from Judicial and Police Cooperation in the Mediterranean

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