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• Economic profiles of general border security and their opportunity costs

  14 May 2009, by Lock Peter
  This paper focuses on the economic implications of border security policies within the European Union and the-Schengen-area in particular. As countless national and international agencies claim to take part in the execution of these policies, which are handled with high priority in the political arena, accounting for the direct and indirect costs becomes a rather complex exercise. Not least because the execution of controls is often externalised and thus may actually shift the location of the physical and legal borders.

• A right-based approach to migration policies in a context of emergencies: ’Expelling States’ and semi-persons in the European Union

  28 April 2009, by Fernández Bessa Cristina, Manavella Alejandra, Silveira Gorski Héctor C.
  The European socio-political climate and its repercussions on person’s rights and liberties trigger multiple challenges. The widening process of the European Union (EU), the hardening of legislation on immigration and terrorism, and the new practices of police and security services make the basic principles and values on which consolidated European democracies lay tilt.

• Report on the situation on the Euro-Mediterranean borders

  27 April 2009, by Ceriani Pablo, Fernández Bessa Cristina, Manavella Alejandra, Picco Valeria, Rodeiro Luis
  Euro-Mediterranean borders are internationally known, especially in Europe, for the causalities and the violation of Human Rights of migrant people trying to reach the European shores of Andalusia, Sicilia, Lampedusa, the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla and later the shores of the Canary Islands. The management of migrations is a key topic of the contemporary national and European polices, mainly for the Euro-Mediterranean countries.

• Islamists are the main terror threat, says report

  22 April 2009, by Adnkronos
  The Italian government investigated 216 terror threats against Italy last year, concluding that Islamist cells were the «primary threat to the public interest, both Italy and abroad.» The extent of the terror threats were revealed in an anti-terrorism report presented to the department of information security.

• External Actions of Internal Security Policies

  22 April 2009, by Cuttitta Paolo
  Paper presented at the workshop «The Implications of Readmission and Enforced Return on Euro-Mediterranean Relations and Beyond», organised by the Robert Schuman Centre and the European University Institute within the frame of the Ninth Mediterranean Research Meeting, held in Montecatini, 12-15 March 2008.

• Police Logics and Intelligence Lead Logics in a Risk Society

  22 April 2009, by Jeandesboz Julien
  The present paper then aims at investigating the evolving relations in the European field of the professionals of (in)security in the context of the setting-up of Frontex, with particular attention being dedicated to the issue of information and information exchanges. It seeks to reflect, by means of such an analysis, on the role and limitations of Frontex, as well as on the impact that these evolving relations might have for the fundamental freedoms and rights of EU citizens and third-country nationals alike.

• Canada’s First Convicted Terrorist Sentenced

  22 April 2009, by News Agencies
  A judge sentenced a Canadian man to 10 1/2 years in prison for plotting with a group of British Muslims to bomb buildings and natural gas lines in the United Kingdom. Mohammed Momim Khawaja, 29, is the first person to be sentenced under Canadian anti-terrorism laws passed after the Sept. 11 attacks. His case is considered to be the first major test of the laws.

• E-borders, Citizens and security : European Cross-Border Collaboration

  22 April 2009
  This seminar convened with end-users of technologies designed to improve security and to facilitate cross-border information exchanges. The seminar opened with a speech by the European Minister Caroline Flint. Police and others involved in combating cross border crime both with partner organizations and with detecting and apprehending international criminals inside their own borders discussed many of the ways in which loopholes are exploited. Attention was drawn to trafficking and to the misuse of the internet, public unawareness about how to protect themselves using e-information exchange, and crucially how to educate the young about the perils of web use, especially of social networking sites. Challenge was presented with attention on issues of ensuring public accountability, secure architectures, migration and policing being of particular interest.

• Two men charged with terrorism in Germany

  22 April 2009, by Deutsche Welle
  Two men with alleged ties to a radical Islamic group have been charged with terrorism, German prosecutors said. Investigators said the accused had connections to a man who planed to bomb US interests in Germany.

• Police feared ‘Al-Qaida terror attack’ on UK was planned for Easter

  22 avril 2009, par News Agencies
  Counter-terrorism officials believe an alleged al-Qaida terror plot against the UK, designed to cause mass casualties, was due to be carried out over Easter. The police raided fifteen locations in the North-West of England on Wednesday, 8 April, arresting 12 suspects of whom 11 are Pakistani nationals. They are believed to be part of a Pakistan-based and trained al-Qaida cell.

• eborders Consultative Meeting on European Cross-Border Collaboration

  21 April 2009, by Lodge Juliet
  This document summarises a meeting where Challenge was presented to the financial sector primarily concerned with combating fraud by promoting cooperation in a regional setting across agencies that do not normally easily share information within their own organizations, across organizations in the region, or with counterpart organisations in other EU member states. It showed that there was a lot to be learned from information sharing and from accessing the kind of analyses produced by Challenge researchers to inform policy and initiatives being taken on the ground to give effect to government/EU policy.

• Credit crunch to increase fraud, experts warn

  21 April 2009, by Seone Perez Francisco
  This summarises a seminar convened with police, fraud and private agencies concerned with the management of crime across jurisdictions and states. It examines th nature of fraud, different crime patterns resulting from successful applications of the European Arrest Warrant and discussed the rich resources available through Challenge to those at the chalk-face wanting to discover more about the EU’s initiatives and actions to combat crime and cross-border criminality.

• On technologies of control of foreigners

  20 April 2009, by Makaremi Chowra
  Security concerns and the tension between the movement of human capital and the will of welfare states to control migration at their borders have led the European Union to set extra-territorial zones of detention for the purpose of border control in the last 20 years. Practices of control over the movement of people have thus created contested spaces of sovereignty at the borders, populated by a «floating population» of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants to be deported.

• Cambridge Chaplain fighting fanaticism in Pakistan

  23 March 2009, by The Telegraph
  John Butt, a Cambridge University chaplain, has established a radio station in Pakistan through which he tries to counter extremist teachings. Having first traveled to the region in 1969 and converted to Islam soon after, he is now based in both Cambridge and the Pakistani Swat valley. This is exactly the region where the Taliban have recently been allowed to introduce Sharia law, who also depend on radio broadcasting to disseminate their ideology.

• CIA warns terrorists targeting German vote

  23 March 2009, by The Local
  A CIA official on Monday warned that the US intelligence agency had received indications al Qaeda was planning to launch terrorist attacks in Germany with the aim of influencing the country’s general election this autumn. The anonymous official from the CIA told German news agency DDP that Washington’s intermediaries in Pakistan had supplied information on German Muslims plotting to return from training camps in northwestern Pakistan just a few weeks before the parliamentary election in September to prepare attacks on «high-ranking targets» in Germany.

• German train bomber among defendants in Lebanon terror trial

  23 March 2009, by Monsters and Critics.com
  A Lebanese military court on Tuesday began a trial in absentia of a terrorist group network that includes a man currently in a German jail for plotting an August 2006 train bombing, according to a court source.

• New Al-Qaeda video targets Germany

  18 March 2009, by Adnkronos
  A new video purportedly from Al-Qaeda criticizes the German government for squandering taxpayers’ money on troops stationed in Afghanistan. The video, which has been posted to jihadist websites, urges Germany to renounce capitalism and embrace Islam to escape economic recession.

• New German Islamist video released

  18 March 2009, by PR Inside
  A new extremist video featuring a German speaker was released Thursday on a jihadist Web site, German officials said.

• Spain may accept Guantanamo Bay detainees

  18 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Spain has told the United States that in principle, it is open to accepting some prisoners currently being held at Guantanamo Bay when the military base shuts down, according to a recent edict by president Barack Obama.

• Guantánamo inmate Binyam Mohamed to return to the UK

  17 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Guantánamo inmate and British resident Binyam Mohamed is said to be sent home to the UK within a short time. The student from West London went on hunger strike on 5 January and is in a very weak physical condition. Trying to avoid a British fatality US authorities have pressed ahead with negotiations.

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