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• 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.

• 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

• Les violences urbaines de novembre 2005 : le temps des analyses

  18 mars 2008, par CEVIPOF, CSO, Sciences Po
  Plus de deux cents personnes - universitaires, chercheurs, doctorants, de différentes disciplines, cadres d’administration rattachés à divers secteurs (police, Justice, Équipement…), personnels de collectivités locales (Politique de la Ville, Jeunesse, Action sociale, Prévention/Sécurité…), élus, travailleurs sociaux, membres d’associations, urbanistes - étaient réunies pour participer à cette journée, animée par une vingtaine d’intervenants : d’une part, des chercheurs et universitaires, français et étrangers, de différentes disciplines (sociologie, sciences du politique, ethnologie, histoire, économie, droit …) et d’autre part, des praticiens - élus, hommes politiques, responsables d’administration (police)....

• Defining and assessing precarious employement in Europe

  2 January 2008, by Centre d’études pour l’emploi
  The aim of the research report is to establish a comparative understanding of precarious employement, as one of the main aspects of social insecurity and risks in European societies. The report is divided into three major parts ; a comparative policy analysis, case studies about specific local situations in several countries, policy implications on the european level (Esope project).

• Précarisation sociale et itinéraires de vie

  12 décembre 2007, par Sotteau-Léomant Nicole
  La précarisation sociale, qui s’est fortement développée depuis les années 1980, reflète les transformations du travail salarié et de l’institution familiale qui ont évolué vers des formes caractérisées, pour l’un comme pour l’autre, par la fragmentation, l’individualisation et la flexibilisation. Ces transformations touchent l’ensemble des milieux sociaux, mais de façon très différenciée, renforçant les inégalités et les discriminations sociales, notamment pour les populations qui sont parmi les plus démunies en capital scolaire et en ressources économiques.

• ’Ethnic’ statistics and data protection in the Council of Europe countries : Study report

  28 November 2007, by Simon Patrick
  ECRI published this study following its consultations with international non-governmental organisations and national specialised bodies to combat racism and racial discrimination on the issue of ethnic data collection. The study offers an overview on the legal and practical framework for ethnic data collection in the Member States of the Council of Europe. It includes case studies on the collection of these «sensitive» data in France, Hungary Germany and United Kingdom.

• Data Protection in the EU’s Internal Security Cooperation – Fundamental Rights vs. Effective Cooperation?

  19 November 2007, by McGinley Marie, Parkes Roderick
  European home affairs cooperation has often been characterised by the disinclination of national security officials to submit themselves to robust common rules, institutions and human rights standards. Cooperation has frequently occurred outside the formal framework of the European Union (EU) at a more informal and ad-hoc level. Even within the EU framework, rights standards as well as judicial and parliamentary oversight remain patchy.

• The Legal Position of Framework Decisions

  19 November 2007, by Domahidi Ákos
  The framework decisions, as the central legal act under the »third pillar» are some of the most significant non-typical documents from a dogmatic point of view, within the EU law. The differences and specialties of this legislative act, correlated with the EC Treaty are available not only in the lawmaking process, but in juridical supervision as well. The main goal of this paper is to show the dogmatic and practical aspects of these two perspectives.

• Accommodating diversity: why current critiques of multiculturalism miss the point

  29 October 2007, by Vasta Ellie
  Some European countries of immigration are currently experiencing a widespread ‘moral panic’ about immigrants and ethnic and religious diversity. This has led to a questioning of policies that recognize the maintenance of group difference and the formation of ethno-cultural and religious communities. Such approaches, which have variously been labelled ‘cultural’, ‘multicultural’, ‘diversity’ or ‘minority’ policies, share important common features concerning group recognition and group-based service provision. A backlash has occurred in policy and in public discourse, with migrants being blamed for not meeting their ‘responsibility to integrate’, hiding behind what are perceived to be ‘backward or illiberal cultural practices’. Such a culturalist approach is blamed for placing collective rights in place of individual rights.

• The Intersection between Justice and Home Affairs and the European Neighbourhood Policy: Taking Stock of the Logic, Objectives and Practices

  8 October 2007, by Wichmann Nicole
  This paper by Nicole Wichmann, Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Lucerne, deals with the justice and home affairs (JHA) elements of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The author refutes the core argument advanced by some analysts that the ENP is essentially a comprehensive cross-pillar security initiative by showing that its objectives as well as its instruments are also inspired by common values.

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