INEX

INEX will host a panel debate on EU security policy-making in the Mediterranean: Consequences in value and ethical terms, at the 2010 World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Barcelona on July 20. The panel will be chaired by Prof. Pinar Bilgin from Bilkent University (Ankara) who leads work package 6 (The Mediterranean neighborhood) of the INEX project.

 

The Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Justice and Home Affairs Section at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) are organizing a Lunchtime Briefing on ‘Data Protection, Borders and Criminal Justice’ within the framework of INEX Project (Converging and conflicting ethical values in the internal/external security continuum in Europe), a Research Project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the DG Enterprise of the European Commission. Enclosed you may find the latest version of the programme.

 

This lunchtime briefing will be the second of a Series of Five Lunchtime Briefings, which will take place in Brussels at the CEPS (Place du Congrès, 1 – 1000 Brussels) on the 29th June 2010 from 12.00 – 15.00h, and it will aim at linking the results of the early stages of the project with policymaking processes.  The events’ purpose is to allow an open discussion on the conceptual and empirical research onsocial and cultural dimensions of security in Europe, linking analyses of law and technology with current discussions on borders, mobility and fundamental rights.

 

To register, please complete the online registration form at: http://www.ceps.eu/event/data-protection-borders-and-criminal-justice.

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.   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.

Venue of the workshop: 17 May 2010, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw

 

The European Council has declared to consider a priority for the upcoming Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) to focus on the interests and needs of the peoples of the European Union (EU). The objective of the workshop is to assess the way in which such prioritisation is to operate: how effectively are the interests of individuals protected? How efficiently are their fundamental rights respected? What happens if the individuals identified as a central concern in the Stockholm programme are de facto limited to EU citizens? How compatible is this approach with, for instance, the need to ensure the effectiveness of the right to privacy and data protection to everyone? And does the current framework guarantee that EU citizens are really able to fully exercise their specific rights even outside the EU? Or do internal and external security concerns unduly limit such exercise?

 

You may find the Programme and the online registration form at: http://www.ceps.eu/event/converging-and-conflicting-ethical-values-internalexternal-security-continuum-europe