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• 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.

• Terror, Insecurity and Liberty : Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

  18 March 2008, by Bigo Didier, Tsoukala Anastassia
  This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security.

• Are you who you say you are? The EU and Biometric Borders

  26 November 2007, by Lodge Juliet
  The question of proving identity using biometric information, storing, accessing and verifying it raises more than technical questions. It goes to the heart of the legal and political values of our politics. The prospect of cross-border automatic information exchange and e-governance beg questions about how an abuse of power can be avoided, democratic accountability sustained, and liberty and security brought into balance.

• Rival Freedoms in terms of security: The case of data protection and the criterion of connexity

  22 October 2007, by Scandamis Nicholas, Sigalas Frantzis, Stratakis Sofoklis, University of Athens
  The research conducted in the framework of the CHALLENGE programme, has investigated a variety of aspects of the problematique surrounding the relationship between liberty and security. The tensions involved in this relationship could also be argued to exist as far as the relationship among freedoms themselves is concerned: the notion of Rival Freedoms represents a significant aspect of the paradigm of European Governance as a liberal regime.

• A SZABADSÁG ÉS BIZTONSÁG VÁLTOZÓ ÖSSZKÉPE EURÓPÁBAN : A Challange-projekt eredményeiről szóló időközi beszámoló

  2007. július 2. , írta Bigo Didier, Carrera Sergio , Challenge, Guild Elspeth, Toth Judit
  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.

• Desafío(s) 3-4 : EMERGENCIAS URBANAS

  27 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  …Europe and Occidental states in general, are facing situations that recognizes their origins in the different aspects produced by the globalization process. The urban emergencies analyzed in this publication thanks to the opinions, contributions and information given by all the collaborators, constitute the most evident and recent signs of situations of emergency and exceptional reactions and interventions…

• Desafío(s) 2 : TORTURAS Y ABUSO DE PODER

  21 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  Torture and abuse of power can not be considered nowadays inappropriate or meaningless references. Torture has always constituted an abuse of power of any kind: physical, economical, authoritarian, political. Even if these subjects have been of great importance for the construction of the juridical and political culture in Occident since the beginning of Modernity, it is also essential to continue talking about them today. Nowadays we talk about all these behaviors worldwide, and this is why we have considered important to face this subject on this publication, specially when we know torture still exists in every corner of this world through the most horrible abuses of power.

• The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security: Mid-Term Report on the Results of the CHALLENGE Project

  20 February 2007, by Bigo Didier, Carrera Sergio , Challenge, Guild Elspeth, Walker Rob J.
  The CHALLENGE project responds to widespread concerns about the resort to specific illiberal practices by contemporary liberal regimes. These practices are linked with the identification of increasing insecurities globally, insecurities that are widely interpreted as obliging sterner policies from the authorities and, consequently, new constraints on principles of liberty under law and presumptions about the innocence of individuals. Specifically, the project examines tensions created by claims that ‘security is the first freedom’ and that a new ‘balance’ has to be established to manage the global scale of contemporary dangers.

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