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• Les nouveaux passeports biométriques de l’UE sont plus sûrs, renforcent la sécurité et la protection des données et facilitent les voyages

  3 July 2006, by European Commission
  Le 28 juin 2006, la Commission européenne a adopté la deuxième partie des spécifications techniques nécessaires à l’introduction des identifiants biométriques (empreintes) dans les passeports et autres documents de voyage délivrés par les États membres conformément au règlement (CE) n° 2252/2004 du Conseil établissant des normes pour les éléments de sécurité et les éléments biométriques intégrés dans les passeports et les documents de voyage délivrés par les États membres.

• Immigration and Criminal Law in the European Union: The Legal Measures and Social Consequences of Criminal Law in Member States on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings

  30 June 2006, by Guild Elspeth, Minderhoud Paul
  This is a study of the legal framework on criminal measures on trafficking and/or smuggling and facilitating illegal entry in six Member States: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and the European Union. This issue is at the nexus of migration and criminal law. The system of criminal law in the Member States is a central part of the balance of the powers of the authorities and the rights of the citizen. The way in which civil liberties of the individual are weighed in comparison with public protection duties by the authorities is in essence a constitutional issue. The treatment of foreigners, in particular as regards their entry onto the territory and residence is not part of the constitutional settlements, but a field governed by state discretion and exceptionalism.

• Analyse de la dimension externe des politiques d’asile et d’immigration de l’UE - synthèse et recommandations pour le Parlement européen

  21 June 2006, by Rodier Claire
  Au début de l’automne 2005, plus d’une dizaine de personnes ont trouvé la mort, et des centaines d’autres, parmi lesquelles des demandeurs d’asile, ont été déportées et pour certaines d’entre elles abandonnées dans le désert par les autorités marocaines à la suite de leurs tentatives désespérées pour franchir la seule frontière terrestre qui existe entre l’Afrique et l’Europe, matérialisée par des fossés et des murs de trois mètres de haut entourant les enclaves espagnoles de Ceuta et Melilla, au nord du Maroc. Quelques semaines plus tard, ce sont encore des centaines de migrants qui faisaient l’objet d’une opération de reconduite à la frontière par les autorités algériennes après leur évacuation d’un vaste campement informel installé à Maghnia, près de la frontière marocaine. Là aussi, des demandeurs d’asile auraient été identifiés.

• Conseil européen de Bruxelles 15 et 16 juin 2006 : conclusions de la présidence

  20 June 2006, by European Presidency
  L’état de la mise en oeuvre des mesures décidées dans le programme de La Haye afin de faire face à des problèmes tels que l’immigration clandestine, la traite des êtres humains, le terrorisme et la criminalité organisée, tout en garantissant le respect des libertés et des droits fondamentaux, sera évalué en décembre 2006. Entre-temps, de plus amples efforts sont nécessaires ...

• The Polish experiences of visa policy in the context of securitization

  13 June 2006, by Weinar Agnieszka
  Polish policy versus foreigners underwent serious, deep-reaching changes over the last fifteen years. From the country of strict emigration policy, closing in its citizens within the State territory, Poland moved to the other pole of the universe - to an immigration policy aiming at closing out the unwanted individuals. After the euphoria of 1989, with the borders finally open to the Polish citizens but also to foreigners, the myth of Openness towards the outside world, so cherished among the liberated Poles, deteriorated gradually, being replaced by fears and insecurity related to specific parts of the outside world. In this paper I will try to demonstrate the limits of this change.

• Visa Policies of European Union Member States: Monitoring Report

  12 June 2006, by Stefan Batory Foundation
  Stefan Batory Foundation research project focusing on visa policy of the Schengen and non-Schengen EU member states in practice.

• The EU’s role in protecting Europe’s security

  31 May 2006, by Ferrero-Waldner Benita
  Last weekend I was in Austria for a discussion with foreign ministers about the future of Europe. There are different views about what that future will look like, and how quickly we ought to move towards it. But there is one element on which we all agree - the European Union must focus on its citizens’ most pressing concerns if it is to convince them of its continued relevance.

• Assistance for rebuilding the police force in Afghanistan

  29 May 2006, by German Federal Foreign Office, German Federal Ministry of the Interior
  After decades of war and destruction Afghanistan entered a new era in December 2001: with the signing of the Petersberg Accord, the foundation for the political and economic reconstruction of the country had been laid. Since then Germany has contributed significantly in the rebuilding of Afghanistan, both financially as well by way of personnel. Two aspects of this cooperation stand out in particular: the commitment of the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) to guarantee security and stability in the country and Germany’s assumption of responsibility for the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s police force.

• De Binnengrenzen van het Koninkrijk, Of: Het voorontwerp ‘Verbanning en Inburgering’

  29 May 2006, by Besselink Leonard F. M.
  Op 30 januari heeft de minister voor Vreemdelingenzaken en Integratie een voorontwerp (met memorie van toelichting) gepubliceerd van een Wet houdende aanvullende maatregelen inzake het verblijf in Nederland van Antilliaanse en Arubaanse risicojongeren en inzake inburgering van Antilliaanse en Arubaanse Nederlanders. Inmiddels is dit voorstel voor advisering door de ministerraad naar de Raad van State gezonden. Dit is de voorlopige uitkristallisering van een reeks nogal problematische voorstellen met betrekking tot een inburgeringsplicht voor buiten het land Nederland geboren Nederlanders die zich in Nederland willen vestigen.

• Migration, asylum and Security: The Case of Ceuta and Melilla

  24 May 2006, by Ortuño Aix José María
  The images of tons of people climbing up barbed wire fences over 3 meters high, using rudimentary stairs made by themselves, appeared in all the news during several days. Those images were used by the conservative media and by the main opposition party in Spain to create an atmosphere of extreme social tension. They tried to explain those events just from a domestic point of view, as if they were the consequence of the immigration policy implemented by the Government in 2005, and also of the improvement of relations between Spain and Marocco being exploited by the latter to get control of the Spanish enclaves in North Africa.

• Spanish Immigration Policies and Legislative Evolution in that Field as a New Exceptional Framework

  24 May 2006, by Fernández Bessa Cristina, Ortuño Aix José María
  While laws of immigration in Spain have intended officially to guarantee the rights and liberties of the immigrants and to provide their social integration, as their titles always assure, they have served, in practice, for just the opposite, for the legal and social construction of irregular immigrant to whom the recognition of rights is notably shrinked and who is forced to live in social marginalization, turned into a non-person.

• In Times, in and as Global Conflict

  23 May 2006, by ephemera collective
  In this issue of ephemera we publish a range of papers that engage with theory and politics in the organisation of global conflicts. Across these works, time - the time of their objects, and the time of their objects’ having been thought as such - are rendered salient. Here, conflict - as itself a site of object and of subject - theory, episteme, practical life - is revealed, intimately, emergent as the organisation of these. To point to the global of conflict, then, harks as much to the schizoid and conflictual singularities of the present of historical thought thinking its own objects - its possibilities and its pasts - as it harks to singularities in the geographies and scalings of its present.

• Seminar «Enhancing EU Cooperation in Security: The Treaty of Prüm & the Principle of Availability»

  22 May 2006, by Centre for European Policy Studies, Challenge
  The seminar seeks to examine the Treaty of Prum in the context of the EU measures and proposals. How will the two venues for cooperation, coordination and harmonisation operate together? What are the tensions present in the new articulation of responsibilities in this field. This seminar is a ’must’ for all policy makers and researchers following the JHA field. It will also address why we have Prüm, and the extent to which this Treaty enhances EU cross-border cooperation in the field of security. Moreover, the event analyses the political and legal implications of data exchange, which is the core instrument of signatories, by comparing it to the principle of availability.

• Crime and violence: Global economic parameters

  22 May 2006, by Lock Peter
  Violence, crime and social fragmentation, the latter increasingly taking forms of social apartheid, are pervasively associated with the current form of economic globalisation. The public good „security« progressively mutates into a commodity, supplied by the private sector in the form of services or as physical commodification of security. The suppliers can be regular enterprises or informal, illegal or criminal actors. Often members of the state security apparatus offer their services to paying clients, which amounts to an informal self-privatisation, while still wearing their uniform representing the state. The commodification is epitomized by the global spread of gated communities and similar schemes of social separateness. Here in South Africa there is no need to elaborate this further, because these phenomena have become a constitutive element of daily life and determine the social topography, as did apartheid before.

• The EU and its Neighborhood: An Overview

  15 May 2006, by Johansson-Nogués Elisabeth
  In May 2003 the Thessalonica European Council formally launched the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). This chapter sheds light on the early evolution of the European Neighborhood Policy. It first discusses the different stimuli that led the EU to create the ENP, and proceeds on to explore the policy formation process between 2002- when the first ‘Wider Europe’ proposals were aired-and late 2005. During this time period, ENP drafts succeeded counter-drafts by the Council, the European Commission and national delegations, and the documents reveal an interesting dialogue in terms of how the EU conceives the nature of its relations with its closest geographical neighbors and, what is more, how these relations are best managed.

• Identidad y frontera en Europa: los veinticinco y sus vecinos

  15 de mayo de 2006, por Barbé Esther
  Las fronteras de Europa están de nuevo en proceso de cambio y esta vez, afortunadamente, no a causa de una guerra, sino de un proceso de negociación y de ajuste en materia de intereses, principios, valores y normas entre los europeos. A pesar de ello, la fecha del 1 de mayo de 2004, que dará nacimiento a la Unión Europea de los Veinticinco, genera ansiedad y preocupación. En casa, naturalmente, pero también entre los vecinos, si por vecinos entendemos aquellos países que, a partir de mayo de 2004, pasan a definir las fronteras exteriores de la Unión: la línea de demarcación entre inclusión y exclusión. En efecto, la lógica binaria in/out ha sido, y sigue siendo, una de las pesadillas del mundo europeo de la posguerra fría. Lo ha sido para aquellos que esperaban que el «regreso a Europa», tras la caída del Muro, se tradujera en su incorporación a las organizaciones-pilar del mundo europeo occidental (OTAN y UE), pero también para la UE que, por su identidad adquirida a lo largo de la guerra fría que lleva a equiparar Europa y Unión Europea, ha sido víctima de su propio éxito.

• Seminar: The Passenger as a risk: monitoring movement and privatising threat

  15 May 2006, by Scholten Sophie
  In March 2007 a Joint Seminar for Younger Scholars will be organized at the Centre for Migration Law of the Radboud University Nijmegen. This seminar will be funded by COST action 24, CHALLENGE and the Centre for Migration Law. The theme of the seminar will be ‘the Passenger as a Risk’.

• The role of internal security in relations between the EU and its neighbours

  9 May 2006, by Frattini Franco
  I am delighted to be with so many of my distinguished colleagues, Ministers of the Interior, at the prestigious Hofburg Imperial Palace today. I would like to express my deep gratitude to the Austrian Presidency, and in particular Minister Liese Prokop, for hosting this Ministerial Conference on the role of internal security in relations between the EU and its neighbours.

• Vienna Declaration on Security Partnership

  9 May 2006, by European Presidency
  A Ministerial Conference on the «Role of Internal Security in Relations between the EU and its Neighbours» was held on 4-5 May 2006 in Vienna, Austria. At the initiative of Austria as the current Presidency of the EU Council, Member States of the European Union and its neighbouring countries met to discuss issues of common interest in relation to internal security.

• Round Table: Trends and Developments in European Union External Border Control

  9 May 2006, by Challenge, Tekofsky Aliza
  In the field of European external border control new laws and institutions are be- ing planned and implemented with constant fervor. The purpose of this Round Table is to discuss the recent trends and developments both on an institutional and substantive level.

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