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  • On the structural and methodological issues in the field of fundamental and minority rights after the eastward enlargement

    18 December 2007
    According to available data there are at least three concerns endangering maintenance or deepening of fundamental legal values of the European Union in the new member states.
  • A SZABADSÁG ÉS BIZTONSÁG VÁLTOZÓ ÖSSZKÉPE EURÓPÁBAN : A Challange-projekt eredményeiről szóló időközi beszámoló

    2007. július 2.
    A Challange-projekt a jelenlegi liberális kormányok antiliberális joggyakorlatáról alkotott, széles körben elterjedt nézetekre reagál. E gyakorlatok főként a globális mértékben egyre inkább elterjedő biztonság megbomlásból származnak, olyan jelenségekből, melyek széles körben úgy értelmezhetők, mint kötelező intézkedések a hatóságok részéről, következésképpen, mint tulajdonképpeni új korlátok a törvény által biztosított szabadság és az egyén ártatlanságának vélelmének ellenében. A kutats célja olyan ellentmondások vizsgálata, amelyeket azon állítások idéznek elő, miszerint „a biztonság az első számú szabadságjog», ezért új egyensúlyt kell kialakítani, hogy felmérhessük korunk globális veszélyeinek széles skáláját. A projekt első számú tárgya azon irányelvek, illetve veszélyre és megelőzésre hivatkozva kialakított korlátozó intézkedések vizsgálata, amelyek a radikálisan átalakuló környezetben jönnek létre, továbbá ezen intézkedések hatásának vizsgálata a polgári szabadságjogokra, politikai jogokra, illetve a társadalmi kohézióra.
  • Report of the Conference "Internal and External Challenges" Budapest, 24th-25th May 2007

    13 June 2007
    Proceedings were begun by a welcome from Dr Judit Tóth, the chair of the first session, on behalf of the Minority Studies Institute, the Hungarian section of the Challenge Consortium, which is made up of 23 international research institutes. The Consortium concentrates on the changing landscapes of European liberty and security issues, and this conference was to address some of the issues brought up by the enlargement of the EU and the interactions between its various members, and those countries on its borders.
  • A Typology of «Transit Zones»

    4 December 2006
    The term ‘transit zones’ can be broadly understood in member states as meaning designated places where rejected migrants are physically detained until they are returned to a state that is obliged to receive them back, including their country of origin. Non-EU nationals (eg people without documentation proving their identity, irregular migrants, asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors) residing inside ‘transit zones’ are subject to the jurisdiction of the territorial state, which remains bound by its international obligations on human rights. However, they are treated in a different wayby comparison with the ordinary legal regime, at least in four aspects (a) detention or restriction of liberty and free movement is designed to prevent their irregular/unlawful entry into the territory, (b) less guarantees are available under the accelerated procedure concerning the substantial evaluation of ‘non-refoulement’ and asylum, (c) absence of publicity, and (d) physical conditions of accommodation are backward in general avoiding further «pull factor effect». In addition to the tough questions of burden-sharing, solidarity and human crisis management for islands as well as for the southern and eastern borders of the EU, transit zones may present the institutionalisation of temporariness as a form of radical social exclusion and marginalisation in modern society and a conservation of borders as dividing lines.
  • The Changing Relationships between the Accession Countries and their Neighbours in the Changing Landscape of Liberty and Security

    30 November 2004
    The objective is to assess the medium and long-term impact of accession process and enlargement on overlapping issues of external and internal security with regional contacts, especially in the context of partial accession of nations to the Union. From May 2004 several diasporas belong to the new member states will remain outside of the EU external borders (ethnic Polish in the CIS countries, Hungarians in Romania etc.).

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