WP 7 : The changing relationships between the Accession countries and their neighbours in the changing landscape of liberty and security

This section's articles

• AN ANALYSIS AND CATEGORISATION OF THE ASYLUM APPELLANTS IN MALTA, 2005-2007

  17 December 2007, by Frendo Henry
  This Challenge project report is sourced through a privileged access to archived documentation held at the Refugee Appeals Board, Fort St Elmo, Valletta. This is the tribunal responsible for finally determining refugee status, which the author has chaired since its inception in November 2001. That was just after Malta had legislated to assume responsibility for asylum applications, forgoing its earlier opt-out on the 1967 New York Protocol modifying the 1952 Geneva Convention on Refugees, i.e. no longer limiting asylum to refugees from Europe but extending access to any provenance. This meant, too, that Malta would no longer rely on UNHCR, mainly through its Branch Office in Rome, to interview or review asylum-seekers including appellants, and to help directly by means of arranging permanent third country resettlement for refugees or special humanitarian cases.

• Report of the Conference "Internal and External Challenges" Budapest, 24th-25th May 2007

  13 June 2007, by Toth Judit
  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.

• The Changing Relationships between the Accession Countries and their Neighbours in the Changing Landscape of Liberty and Security

  30 November 2004, by Agius Leslie, Boratynski Jakub, Tchorbadjiyska Angelina , Toth Judit
  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.).