INEX

17 May 2010 - Collegium Civitas, Warsaw.  The purpose of the workshop is to gain a better understanding of the evolving relationships in the JHA area between the EU and its closest Eastern neighbours: Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus, through the particular prism of border management.  Drawing on some of the key themes that arose from the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting of February 2010, where 29 measures for ‘reinforcing the protection of the external borders and combating illegal immigration’ were laid out, the workshop will explore the ways in which the EU is endeavouring to strengthen its Eastern borders, with particular reference to the evolving role of FRONTEX.  The workshop will seek to explore those measures under development that endeavour to better identify ‘those migrants who are in need of international protection’ in mixed flows of regular and irregular migration towards the EU’s outer borders.1  In this context we are interested to learn about current levels of cooperation between the EU and the three Eastern neighbours in the area of border security and migration management.  By panning out to the macro-political level we wish to consider how EU efforts at emboldening border security sit with the wider objectives of the European Neighbourhood Policy – particularly on questions of mobility and visas.  Finally, the workshop aims to understand the interplay between such initiatives the EU’s Stockholm Programme, the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum and the Global Approach to Migration.

 

The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of border management, European Neighbourhood Policy, mobility and cross-border issues.