WP 05 : The changing dynamic of security in an enlarged Europe

Articles

• HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: TAKING STOCK OF HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH AND MOVING TOWARDS A NEW RESEARCH AGENDA

  13 December 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The protection and promotion of human rights lie at the heart of the EU’s foundation and priorities. Only through the development and support of research on potential threats to human rights can the EU design and implement more comprehensive policies. The Programme on Social Sciences and Humanities of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Research Framework Programmes of DG Research has addressed various dimensions of human rights.

• EU Annual Report on Human Rights 2008

  3 December 2008, by Council of the EU
  Year by year, the European Union is developing and strengthening its actions to promote, and ensure respect for, human rights throughout the world. This 10th EU Annual Report on Human Rights testifies to that constant commitment. Promotion of human rights is now one of the most highly-developed facets of the European Union’s external relations.

• Final Statement of the migration and development Paris conference

  3 December 2008, by European Presidency
  Today, 25 November, in Paris, France is hosting the second Euro-African Ministerial Conference on migration and development, during which the African and European partners will take note of the reinforcement of the dialogue in the context of the Rabat process and the existence of a Euro-African consensus on a global approach to migration. They are also expected to commit themselves further to developing a genuinely operational relationship by adopting a multi-annual cooperation programme to ensure balanced and concerted management of migration in West Africa.

• French detention and immigration policies

  3 December 2008, by Hammarberg Thomas
  «Security concerns should not undermine a full respect for human rights norms. Some French policies on detention and immigration risk undermining these standards.» With these words, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, presented today his report on France, identifying problems as regards prison conditions, preventive detention (rétention de sûreté ), juvenile justice and rights of migrants.

• Recent migration trends: citizens of EU-27 Member States become ever more mobile while EU remains attractive to non-EU citizens

  2 December 2008, by Eurostat
  In 2006 about 3.5 million persons settled in a new country of residence in the EU-27, according to Eurostat estimates. After rather rapid growth in 2003 compared with 2002, the rise in immigration slowed in the last few years. The biggest rise in immigration was in Ireland and Spain. Compared with the small increase in total immigration, more citizens of EU-27 Member States were migrating

• Report on transitional arrangements regarding free movement of workers

  2 December 2008, by European Commission
  A European Commission report published 18.11.2008 shows that mobile workers from the countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 have had a positive impact on Member States’ economies and have not led to serious disturbances on their labour markets. Workers from the EU-8 as well as Bulgaria and Romania have made a significant contribution to sustained economic growth, without significantly displacing local workers or driving down their wages.

• Ethnicity and race-based profiling in counter-terrorism, law enforcement and border control

  2 December 2008, by Pap Andras
  The aim of this study is to synthesize legal arguments and research findings relating to ethno-racial profiling in the field of anti-terrorist policies and legal instruments. The ultimate goal is to formulate guidelines and recommendations for the European legislators. In Part I, the study provides an analysis of the concept and utility of profiling. This includes an assessment of the most important substantive criteria of profiling and the necessary safeguards.

• Speaking of terror

  2 December 2008, by Banisar David, Conseil de l’Europe
  The effects of anti-terrorism legislation and efforts since 2001 has raised new challenges for the media’s ability to collect and disseminate information. Nearly all European nations have adopted new laws in that period.

• Not the way forward the UK’s dangerous reliance on diplomatic assurances

  2 December 2008, by Human Rights Watch
  This 36-page report focuses on two important appeals in the House of Lords this month that will test the reliability of no-torture promises from the governments of Algeria and Jordan. In the pending appeals, Britain’s highest court will grapple for the first time with the government’s «deportation with assurances» policy, an important component of its counterterrorism strategy.

• EU Counter-terrorism strategy

  2 December 2008, by EU counter-terrorism coordinator
  On 19/20 June 2008, the European Council welcomed the recommendations made by the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator (referred to hereafter as CTC) in his report1. This report assesses the progress made in recent months, and the priorities for future action.

• Implementation of the strategy and action plan to combat terrorism

  1 December 2008, by EU counter-terrorism coordinator
  Delegations will find enclosed an updated version of the implementation of the legislative instruments listed in the Declaration on terrorism of the European Council of 25 March 2004 – State of play as of 24 November 2008.

• Conference : Shaping European Policies on Immigration, Borders and Asylum: Giving a Voice to Civil Society

  25 November 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is organizing, in collaboration with the European Economic and Social Committee (SOC Section) and the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) a two-day Conference on The Future European Policy on Immigration, Borders and Asylum: Giving a Voice to Civil Society. This event will take place on the 9th and 10th December 2008 at CEPS (Place du Congrès, 1 - 1000 Brussels).

• EUROPOL: Coordinating the fight against serious and organised crime

  19 November 2008, by House of Lords Select Committee on European Union
  Europol, the European Police Office responsible for coordinating the fight against serious and organised crime, began operations from its headquarters in The Hague in 1999. In January 2010 it will become an agency of the EU. The Council Decision bringing about this change in its constitution has made some amendments to its objects, powers, working methods and governance.

• Returns at Any Cost: Spain’s Push to Repatriate Unaccompanied Children in the Absence of Safeguards

  19 November 2008, by Human Rights Watch
  Spain’s accelerating effort to send back unaccompanied children who enter the country illegally might subject them to danger, ill-treatment and detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government needs to halt repatriations until it has a process to ensure their well-being, and, as an immediate step, give them the same right to an independent lawyer that adult migrants have under Spanish law.

• Data protection from a transatlantic perspective: the EU and US move towards an international data protection agreement?

  19 November 2008, by Bellanova Rocco, Hert (de) Paul
  Recent years have been marked by a growing demand of personal data for public security purposes. Access and protection of those data are climbing the transatlantic political agenda. They have raised tensions and fostered forms of cooperation. The possible conclusion of an international binding agreement on a common transatlantic framework on data protection would be a further and crucial step ahead. The scope of this study is to pave the way for launching a parliamentary debate on those issues.

• JLS acquis

  18 November 2008, by European Commission
  Consolidated and revised version October 2008

• Systèmes judiciaires européens : Efficacité et qualité de la justice

  4 novembre 2008, par Commission européenne pour l’efficacité de la justice
  La Commission du Conseil de l’Europe pour l’efficacité de la justice (CEPEJ) vient de rendre public son 2e rapport d’évaluation des systèmes judiciaires européens lors d’une conférence de presse à Paris.

• Mauritanie : « Personne ne veut de nous »

  4 novembre 2008, par Amnesty International
  Le nouveau rapport d’Amnesty est le fruit d’une mission de recherches que des délégués de l’organisation ont effectuée en Mauritanie en mars 2008. Celle-ci à mis au jour des arrestations et des expulsions collectives dramatiques demandées et soutenues par L’Union européenne et l’Espagne plus particulièrement.

• «It is wrong to criminalize migration»

  4 November 2008, by Hammarberg Thomas
  I have observed with increasing concern a trend to criminalize the irregular entry and presence of migrants as part of a policy of ‘migration management’. Such a method of controlling international movement corrodes established international law principles. It also causes many human tragedies without achieving its purpose of genuine control.

• Report on the Application of Directive 2003/86/ec on the Right to Family Reunification

  4 November 2008, by European Commission
  On 22 September 2003 the Council adopted Directive 2003/86/EC setting out common rules on the exercise of the right to family reunification by third-country nationals residing lawfully in Member States (hereinafter «the Directive»). It applies to all Member States except IE, DK and the UK.

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