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• Conference : The Social Construction of Threat and the Changing Relation between Liberty and Security

  20 May 2008
  This Conference constitutes the final event of the Action A24 of the COST Programme, an intergovernmental network which supports cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe. It also falls within the scope of CHALLENGE, a research project funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of DG Research (European Commission). This Conference will aim at providing a forum for policy makers, social partners, civil society actors and academics to exchange views on key themes that have intervened on the changing relation between liberty and security and the evolving social construction of insecurities.

• 5th CHALLENGE Training School : Migration, Visas & Asylum: Social, Legal and Political Issues (18 & 19 April 2008)

  31 March 2008
  The Training School will address the social, legal and political issues comprised in the construction of a common EU Immigration and Asylum Policy. The ‘migration dossier’ is highly complex as it comprises a considerable number of different facets. Therefore, the Training school seeks to focus on the various issues and questions related to «migrations» from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. This event brings together young researchers to deepen and widen their knowledge on the issues at stake along with key academics and policy makers

• Conference Proceedings : Managing Threats? Citizens and disasters abroad – EU policy responses

  4 February 2008
  The right to diplomatic and consular protection of EU citizens on the one hand and the concept and practices of EU civil protection on the other are two areas of EU policy which are rarely brought together. Substantially and institutionally different legal regimes govern these fields. Yet, crisis situations and disasters outside EU borders, like the Tsunami in South-East Asia in 2004 or the Lebanon crisis in 2006 have highlighted the close link that exists between providing assistance to third countries and at the same time protecting EU citizens and their families in these third countries.

• Call for papers FIFTH CHALLENGE TRAINING SCHOOL Migration, Visas and Asylum: Social, legal, political and economic issues

  22 January 2008
  The Centre of European Policy Studies (CEPS) is organising the Fifth CHALLENGE Training School on «Migration, Visas and Asylum: Social, Legal, Political and Economic Issues». The event will take place at CEPS on the 18 & 19 April 2008. You may find attached to this e-mail the detailed Call for Papers. CEPS invites submission of Proposals for Papers addressing the conference’s theme no later than 21 February 2008.

• Seminar : Managing Threats? Citizens and disasters abroad – EU policy responses

  26 November 2007
  While efforts in these two policy fields had been stepped up considerably in the last years, both are traditionally located within member states’ competence and the scepticism member states have shown towards further EU involvement underline a continuing reluctance. One might therefore wonder to what extent the citizen at risk abroad - by his very construction as an EU citizen and related citizenship rights - is in fact perceived as a threat to state sovereignty in international relations.

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

  13 November 2007
  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.

• IV CHALLENGE Training School : « Integration, Immigration & Citizenship: European, National & Local Responses »

  23 October 2007
  The Training School will address the European, national and local responses to integration, immigration and citizenship. What is the role, functions and vulnerabilities of integration in the contexts of immigration, citizenship and asylum at the various levels of governance? What are the social impacts of their intersection in processes of inclusion? What is the role of religion and culture? The Training School seeks to address these and other related questions. It brings together young researchers to deepen and widen their knowledge on the issues at stake along with key academics and policy makers.

• Workshop : The Internal & External Dilemmas of a Common EU Immigration Policy

  23 October 2007
  The EU’s common immigration policy has been the focus of substantial activity over the past six months. The context and framework of movement of third country nationals into and out of the EU for employment purposes is undergoing an important transformation which encompasses three key dimensions

• The Reform Treaty & Justice and Home Affairs - Implications for the common Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

  27 August 2007
  Following CEPS’ coverage of the ‘institutional deadlock’ and the ‘new deal’ before and after the June European Council, this new Policy Brief by CEPS researchers Sergio Carrera and Florian Geyer examines the compromise reached from the perspective of EU Justice and Home Affairs policies. With the formal scrapping of the ‘pillar structure’, this policy field will be among those most fundamentally changed by the new framework.

• Call for Papers : Integration, Immigration & Citizenship : Local, National, European & International responses

  27 August 2007
  The development of an EU framework of the integration of immigrants has been presented as one of the key strategic objectives for the development of an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Based on the Amsterdam Treaty, and the political mandates given by the Tampere and The Hague Programmes, the European Commission has presented in the last years a series of instruments addressing the area of «integration of immigrants», and intending to consolidate a common European framework for action.

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