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• Élargissement de l’espace Schengen : réalisation de l’objectif européen de libre circulation des personnes

  26 décembre 2007, par European Commission
  À compter du 21 décembre 2007, l’Estonie, la République tchèque, la Lituanie, la Hongrie, la Lettonie, Malte, la Pologne, la Slovaquie et la Slovénie feront partie de l’espace Schengen. Les contrôles aux frontières intérieures, tant terrestres que maritimes, entre ces pays et les quinze États déjà membres seront levés. L’idéal de la liberté de circulation trouvera là une expression très concrète : après ce dernier élargissement, la frontière orientale de l’espace Schengen mesurera 4 278 km.

• Enlargement of the Schengen area: achieving the European goal of free movement of persons

  24 December 2007, by European Commission
  As of 21st December 2007, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will become part of the Schengen area. Controls at internal land and sea borders between these countries and the current 15 member states will be lifted. This will result in a very tangible expression of the free movement ideal: this latest enlargement extends the free movement area by 4,278 km.

• Détentions secrètes et transferts illégaux de détenus impliquant des Etats membres du Conseil de l’Europe : second rapport

  11 juin 2007, par Conseil de l’Europe, Marty Dick
  L’Assemblée parlementaire rappelle sa résolution 1507 (2006) et sa recommandation 1754 (2006) et se réfère au rapport du 12 juin 2006 qui révélait l’existence d’une « toile d’araignée » de transferts illégaux de détenus tissée par la CIA dans laquelle ont été impliqués des Etats membres du Conseil de l’Europe et qui exprimait des soupçons quant à l’existence de lieux de détention secrets en Pologne et en Roumanie.

• Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: Second report

  11 June 2007, by Conseil de l’Europe, Marty Dick
  The Parliamentary Assembly recalls its Resolution 1507 (2006) and Recommendation 1754 (2006), and refers to the report of 12 June 2006 revealing the existence of a «spider’s web» of illegal transfers of detainees woven by the CIA in which Council of Europe member states were involved, and expressing suspicions that secret places of detention might exist in Poland and Romania.

• Legal Migration Law and Policy Trends in a Selection of EU Member States

  4 December 2006, by Carrera Sergio
  This briefing paper offers an overview of the current trends in ‘legal migration’ law and policy in a selection of EU member states. The main tendencies are ascertained through a comparative analysis of their strategies and priorities in the specific areas of labour migration, family reunification and immigration for the purpose of studies. In particular, this paper looks at the legal and political experiences of and responses pursued by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands. The following issues will be addressed: what are the latest developments in the legal and policy framework covering the admission of third country nationals for the purposes of employment, family reunification and studies? What is the underlying approach taken by EU countries? What are the conditions being applied in each of the cases? Are there any migration policy and legal trends that are common to all the member states of the EU?

• Behind Closed Doors: the meeting of the G6 Interior Ministers at Heiligendamm

  20 September 2006, by House of Lords
  Home Office Ministers hold regular meetings with the ministers of the interior of the other five largest EU States: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland. At the last such meeting in Heiligendamm in March 2006 the G6 ministers discussed their joint response to terrorism, illegal immigration and organised crime. The United Kingdom was represented by the then Home Secretary.

• 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.

• Recent examples of enforcement actions carried out by data protection authorities

  9 May 2006, by Article 29 Group
  This comparative report gives brief examples of enforcement measures against breaches of data privacy protection rules in the member states. It shows high levels of variability in terms of penalties (ie minimal fines as in Germany and stiffer penalties elsewhere). Financial penalties are often so low as a percentage of the gain made by the infringer that they are not a deterrent. The compensation to the ‘victim’ can often be trivial and meaningless. There is also variance in what member states focus on when looking into enforcement, The most common areas are health, insurance, tax and payment of telephone bills. The UK looked at police data.

• Finland : Public Report Task Force Meeting

  27 February 2006, by Finnish Ministry of the Interior
  Discussions highlighted the importance of coordination and communication between governments and security agencies in participating states. In particular, it was agreed that a proposal aimed at enhancing cooperation with border authorities and establishing contact with Frontex with regard to Intelligence Led Law Enforcement will be completed in the first half of 2006.

• Allégations de détentions secrètes dans des États membres du Conseil de l’Europe

  25 janvier 2006, par Conseil de l’Europe, Marty Dick
  Pour Dick Marty, rapporteur de l’Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe, dont les conclusions provisoires ont été rendues publiques aujourd’hui dans une note d’information, il est fort improbable que les gouvernements européens, ou tout au moins leurs services de renseignements, n’aient pas été au courant des « restitutions » de plus d’une centaine de personnes en Europe. Se référant notamment aux déclarations de fonctionnaires américains, M. Marty a déclaré que « de nombreux indices, cohérents et convergents, permettent de conclure à l’existence d’un système de « délocalisation » ou de « sous-traitance » de la torture.

• Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states

  25 January 2006, by Conseil de l’Europe, Marty Dick
  The first information memorandum on CIA rendition flights and alleged detention centres dismantles the largely shared statement ‘we didn’t know’. Dick Marty makes clear that governments, or at least the intelligence services, should have been aware of what was going on, given the high number of CIA-chartered flights that have passed through European countries.

• «Constitutional Challenges to the European Arrest Warrant»

  11 January 2006, by Centre for European Policy Studies, Challenge
  The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is pleased to invite you to participate in the seminar « Constitutional Challenges to the European Arrest Warrant» which will be organized together with the Centre for Migration Law (Radboud University of Nijmegen) on 13th February 2006 in Brussels. The seminar will look at the decisions of the constitutional courts in Germany, Poland, and Cyprus which have challenged the compatibility of national provisions transposing the European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision with the constitutional law of these Member States.

• Declaration on future cooperation of the Central and Eastern Europe Personal Data Protection Commissioners

  10 January 2006, by Central and Eastern Europe Personal Data Protection Commissioners
  Declaration on future cooperation of the Central and Eastern Europe Personal Data Protection Commissioners in Smolenice, on May 24th 2005

• Europeanization of Polish immigration policy 1993-2003

  7 November 2005, by Weinar Agnieszka
  The development of immigration policy in Poland has been always treated as an expression of the coercive nature of the Associated, and later on Candidate, State’s relations with the EU. Main issues raised in this perspective are the imposed asylum policy that transformed Poland into a buffer zone of the Schengen area, or the reluctance with which Polish government introduced visa policy in regards of Ukraine and Belarus. One aspect of these changes however is missing - the possibility of actual modification of the system of beliefs. The fact that a restrictive policy versus foreigners emerged in the country of very low immigration levels, only slightly exceeding 0.1% of total population, cannot be explained by domestic processes.

• 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.).