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• Contrôle et mobilité des personnes

  9 juillet 2008, par Bigo Didier
  L’usage croissant des échanges de données personnelles en matière de sécurité à l’échelle européenne et transnationale pose des questions centrales tant du point de vue des implications politiques de l’harmonisation des systèmes techniques de transmission de données que du point de vue des garanties légales et juridiques offertes aux citoyens et aux étrangers en matière de protection des données.

• THE EU’S MATURE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY – A CRITICAL HISTORICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  This paper takes stock of the EU’s response to international terrorism since 9/11. The first part provides a summary historical overview, which highlights the event-driven and contingent development of the EU’s counterterrorism policy. The second part presents a critical assessment of policy outcomes according to the objectives set out in the EU’s Counterterrorism Strategy. Measures ‘to pursue’, and ‘to protect’ against, terrorists seem to have grown substantially. In practice, however, they are undercut by a lack of focus and use at the operational level.

• The politics of subterfuge and EU JHA governance capacity

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  This paper starts out from a puzzle: Why is EU JHA characterized by frustrations and blockades, while it is at the same time one of the most dynamic policy-areas? Posed in such general terms, this question is almost impossible to answer: Not only is EU JHA policy a highly diverse, but has also seen phases of ambitious agenda-setting contrasted by periods of stagnation. Therefore, a convincing answer to the above puzzle would require an extensive historical exposition of this policy area, which is beyond the scope of this paper.

• The European Security Vanguard? Prüm, Heiligendamm and Flexible Integration Theory

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  The main purpose of this paper is to better understand the political importance of the so-called G6 group that unites the Interior ministers of the six biggest EU member states. Furthermore, some of the implications of the Prüm Convention will be discussed, as the group of Prüm signatories has been compared elsewhere to the G6. However, this paper also hopes to contribute to the wider discussion of the phenomenon of ‘flexible integration’ in area of Justice and Home Affairs. Thus, after a brief historical overview of this issue, a relatively unknown theory of flexible integration will be presented, and briefly applied to the case of the Prüm Convention.

• Development v. Terrorism — migrant remittances or terrorist financing?

  8 July 2008, by Vlcek William
  This paper discusses recent developments in the campaign to combat terrorist financing in Europe and the intersection of these with the flow of migrant remittances from the Members States of the European Union to Third Countries. New regimes of control within the European Union (EU) towards migration affect more than just those seeking entry to Europe. Migrants frequently leave behind families that they expect to support from their earnings once they secure employment at their final destination.

• Under Construction: ESDP and the ‘Fight Against Organised Crime’

  8 July 2008, by Berenskoetter Felix
  This paper discusses the phenomenon of ‘organised crime’ as a matter for EU foreign and security policy. Primarily aimed at searching for conceptual guidance, the first part draws on literature on criminology and policing, presenting two different theoretical perspectives for analyzing the phenomenon of ‘organized-crime fighting’, a utilitarian and a social constructivist one. Against this backdrop, the second part discusses how ESDP has developed and engaged the issue of organized crime.

• Democratic Governance in a Market Society: Socializing Security in the European Union

  1 July 2008, by Scandamis Nicholas
  A vast topic like this certainly needs to be delineated right at the outset mainly in terms of the task pursued. Indeed, democracy is a concept with a long history and today it shapes itself at many different levels. Unavoidably it must be approached through its essence, the forceful idea which keeps it alive and makes it still today a polemic concept. Its fundamental imprecision needs to be handled cautiously in view also of the difficulties arising from the peculiarities of the context of what is known to be European governance; a stand which makes problematic the very use of the word democracy

• The concepts of security and liberty in the framework of the European Union: the case of the EU’s external action

  1 July 2008, by University of Athens, University of Cologne
  The concepts of Liberty and Security, both in a theoretical perspective and in view of their role in the formulation and implementation of virtually all policies in a modern polity, acquire a special place in the framework of the European Union. Taking into account the rapid development of a variety of EU policies that revolve around these concepts, this special place merits extensive attention. This is particularly important for the analysis of the development of a distinct foreign policy/external action of the EU, in the framework of which the concepts of liberty and security acquire a significant role.

• Integration and Immigration: The Vicissitudes of Dutch ‘inburgering’

  24 June 2008, by Besselink Leonard F. M.
  The Netherlands has set an example to a range of other EU Member States in devising measures to integrate immigrants not only as a goal in itself, but as part of a restrictive migration policy. This essay describes the vicissitudes of ‘integration programmes’ (inburgering) in the Netherlands. It focuses on law, and we reflect in particular on the legislation through which these programmes were to be enforced.

• The impact of migration from the new European Union Member States on native workers

  17 June 2008, by Lemos Sara, Portes Jonathan
  Migrants coming to the UK from Eastern Europe have not caused unemployment or stopped UK workers from finding jobs, according to research published today. The research, ‘The impact of migration from the new European Union Member States on native workers’ concludes that new migrants have not had an impact on the numbers claiming unemployment benefits in the UK, or had a significant impact on wages.

• Security versus Justice? Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union

  4 June 2008, by Geyer Florian , Guild Elspeth
  One of the most dynamic areas of recent EU law has been cooperation in the fields of policing and criminal justice. This book enables readers to understand the changes that have taken place by examining how and why they occurred, along with the subsequent outcomes.

• Court of Justice of the European Communities Judgment of 3 May 2007, Case C-303/05, Advocaten voor de Wereld VZW v. Leden van de Ministerraad

  28 May 2008, by Geyer Florian
  Listening carefully, one might have heard the sigh of relief breathed in Brussels and other EU capitals on 3 May 2007, when the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ or Court) eventually delivered its first judgment on the European arrest warrant (EAW), giving the green light to this flagship instrument of EU judicial co-operation in criminal matters.

• The Treaty of Lisbon and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Exceptionalism and Fragmentation in the European Union

  26 May 2008, by Carrera Sergio , Geyer Florian
  The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) constitutes one of the policies which will be more affected by the new institutional configurations that will be brought about by the Reform Treaty signed in Lisbon on the 13 December 2007 (Treaty of Lisbon). These policies, traditionally denominated as Justice and Home Affairs, have been subject to various criticisms calling for the need to reform and improve their current institutional, legal and procedural structures.

• El Tratado de Lisboa y un Espacio de Libertad, Seguridad y Justicia: Excepcionalismo y Fragmentación en la Unión Europea.

  26 de mayo de 2008, por Carrera Sergio , Geyer Florian
  El Espacio de Libertad, Seguridad y Justicia (ELSJ) se encuentra entre las políticas comunitarias más afectadas por la nueva configuración institucional que será introducida con la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Reforma firmado el 13 de Diciembre del 2007 en Lisboa (Tratado de Lisboa). Estas políticas, tradicionalmente denominadas como de ‘Justicia y Asuntos de Interior’, han sido objeto de sendas críticas poniendo de manifiesto la necesidad de reformar sus actuales estructuras institucionales, jurídicas y procesales.

• EC Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements: Implementing a New EU Security Approach in the Neighbourhood

  29 April 2008, by Kruse Imke, Trauner Florian
  With the Eastern Enlargement successfully completed, the EU is searching for a proper balance between internal security and external stabilisation that is acceptable to all sides. This paper focuses on an EU foreign policy instrument that is a case in point for this struggle: EC visa facilitation and readmission agreements. By looking on the EU’s strategy on visa facilitation and readmission, this paper aims at offering a first systematic analysis of the objectives, substance and political implications of these agreements.

• The Other Side of Moon - The Schengen Information System and Human Rights: A Task for National Courts

  16 April 2008, by Brouwer Evelien
  The European Commission’s proposals for a European Border Management Strategy are based on an almost blind faith in the use of large-scale databases, identification measures and biometrics for immigration and border control purposes. Yet these measures entail a risk to the protection of not only the right to privacy and the right to data protection, but also to the freedom of movement and the principle of non-discrimination.

• The Abolition of Internal Border Checks in an Enlarged Schengen Area: Freedom of movement or a scattered web of security checks?

  7 April 2008, by Faure Atger Anaïs
  This paper assesses the implications and practicalities stemming from the removal of land and sea internal border controls in an enlarged EU on December 2007. Freedom of movement represents a central feature of the supranational status of EU citizenship. Its practical application to the enlarged EU territory has constituted a necessary step to ensure equality among all European citizens. After providing an account of the processes and logic leading to the removal of checks at common borders, the state of play within the Schengen area is described. Particular attention is paid to the national security strategies carried out by the EU-15 member states currently in place and their consequences on the freedom of movement of individuals and on liberty.

• Security Policies and Human Rights in European Football Stadia

  7 April 2008, by Tsoukala Anastassia
  This paper addresses the issue of the increasing infringement of European football supporters’ civil rights and liberties since the mid-1980s. The analysis of the national and supranational regulation of football hooliganism in the light of the evolution of crime control policies in Europe uncovers that this jeopardising of freedoms, owing to the institutionalisation of the control of deviance and to the blurring of the frontiers between the executive and the legislative powers, is not a side-effect of the counter-hooliganism policies.

• Public Image and Social Acceptance of Nanotechnologies

  2 April 2008, by Könninger Sabine, Ott Ingrid, Papilloud Christian, Zülsdorf Torben
  To understand the motives of the public to support technological innovations is essential for several reasons. On the one hand, it enables to build an «acceptable social balance » but it allows to consider the civil society as an active partner in the diffusion of technological innovation as well. In the case of nanotechnologies, defective information exists about the way in which the public constructs a relationship to such abstract technologies. These defectives have to be rounded out by paying attention to the

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

  31 March 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  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

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