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• Background on Schengen enlargement

  26 December 2007
  On 14th June 1985, the Governments of Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed an agreement at Schengen, a small town in Luxembourg, with a view to enabling «(...) all nationals of the Member States to cross internal borders freely (...)» and to enable the «free circulation of goods and services».

• L’élargissement de l’espace Schengen en dates et en chiffres

  26 décembre 2007
  Le 14 juin 1985, les gouvernements belge, allemand, français, luxembourgeois et néerlandais ont signé à Schengen, petite bourgade du Luxembourg, un accord ayant pour objectif « [...] le libre franchissement des frontières intérieures par tous les ressortissants des États membres et [...] la libre circulation des marchandises et des services ».

• Enlargement of the Schengen area: achieving the European goal of free movement of persons

  24 December 2007
  As of 21st December 2007, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will become part of the Schengen area. Controls at internal land and sea borders between these countries and the current 15 member states will be lifted. This will result in a very tangible expression of the free movement ideal: this latest enlargement extends the free movement area by 4,278 km.

• Background to the JLS issues to be discussed at the European Council meeting on 14 December 2007

  18 December 2007
  The European Council on 14th December will consider a large number of JLS issues. This memo provides a brief outline of these issues as well as links to background documents. In addition, it highlights relevant initiatives and proposals to be introduced, discussed and/or adopted in 2008.

• Commun principles of flexicurity 2007

  18 December 2007
  The document reviews the latest experiences in the field of labour market policies and flexicurity of the european member states and explores 8 commun principles. The text does not resolve the paradoxe of commun EU principles on the one hand, but national policies concerning labour and social norms ont the other hand.

• Charter of Fundamental Rights: the Presidents of the Commission, European Parliament and Council sign and solemnly proclaim the Charter in Strasbourg

  17 December 2007
  The Presidents of the Commision, European Parliament,and the Council today signed and solemnly proclaimed the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in Strasbourg, thus opening the way for the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon tomorrow. The Charter will give European citizens a catalogue of rights legally binding on the institutions and bodies of the European Union and on the Member States when they are implementing EU law. This is a significant step on the path to European integration.

• Charte des droits fondamentaux : les Présidents de la Commission européenne, du Parlement et du Conseil signent et proclament solennellement la Charte à Strasbourg

  17 décembre 2007
  A Strasbourg, les Présidents de la Commission européenne, du Parlement et du Conseil ont signé et proclamé solennellement la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne. Ceci ouvre la voie à la signature, demain, du traité de Lisbonne. Les citoyens européens disposeront avec la Charte d’un véritable catalogue de droits juridiquement contraignants pour les institutions, les organes et les organismes de l’Union ainsi que pour les Etats membres lorsqu’ils mettent en oeuvre le droit de l’Union. C’est un pas important dans la construction européenne.

• The Commission regrets delay in transposition of European rules on procedures for granting asylum

  5 December 2007
  On 1 December 2007, the deadline for transposition of the Asylum Procedures Directive (Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005, on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status) expired. Until today, only 6 Member States (Bulgaria, Germany, Luxemburg, Austria, Romania and the United Kingdom) have communicated their national measures informing that they transpose fully the Directive. 4 Member States (Belgium, Estonia, France and Lithuania) have notified partial transposition.

• Transposition of the Asylum Procedures Directive

  5 December 2007
  The Asylum Procedures Directive (Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005, on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status) is one of the four building blocks of the first stage of the Common European Asylum System. The other main asylum instruments are Regulation (EC) 343/2003 («Dublin Regulation»), Directive 2003/9/EC («Reception Conditions Directive,») and Directive 2004/83/EC («Qualification Directive»). These legislative instruments guarantee a minimum level of protection and procedural safeguards in all Member States for those who are genuinely in need of international protection, whilst preventing abuses of asylum applications which undermine the credibility of the system and place additional administrative and financial burden on member States.

• GREEN PAPER : Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century

  4 December 2007
  The purpose of the paper is to launch a public debate on how labour law can evolue, in order to support the strategy defined at the EU summit of Lisbon in 2000. This policy already impulsed the national laws, as seen in Germany with the «Hartz 4» law or the british workfare programmes. The paper describes several new forms or perspectives of labour flexibility and security («flexicurity»).

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