December 31, 2009 – 6:05 pm
Interesting elements emerge on the implementation of the Stockholm Programme (2010-2014) from the working document of the Council presidency. It is necessary, as it is often the case for official documents, to interpret the silences as well as some cryptic or general information. It therefore follows a summary of the main proposals with some complementary explanatory notes.
December 31, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Following the previous note on borders, immigration and asylum we wil now proceed with the priorities announced by the Spanish presidency in the field of internal security of the EU. These come from the working document of the Spanish, Belgium and Hungarian Council Presidencies which will follow one after the other in the next 18 [...]
December 30, 2009 – 5:41 pm
It was only recently, on 9 December during a hearing in front of the Internal Security Commission of the Senate, that the US administration was reassuring senators of the efficiency of the system of prevention of terrorist attacks, specifically concerning air transportation. From the hearing emerged that enormous progresses have been made since the constitution [...]
December 29, 2009 – 1:12 pm
The necessity to set up common minimum standards as regard to procedural rights applying in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union was already clear for the European Parliament in 2001 when, following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the European Union adopted a series of measures such as the European Arrest Warrant and the Framework Decision [...]
December 29, 2009 – 11:19 am
The European Commission has recently published a Communication summarising the most relevant information in the field of migration and asylum which shall be transmitted by the Member States on the basis of the European Council Decision of 2006. This Decision was adopted following the self-evident remark that national measures in the areas of immigration and [...]
December 29, 2009 – 8:27 am
With the launch of a recent Green Paper, The European Commission invites Member States and all concerned stakeholders to define a European strategy concerning the collection of admissible evidence in criminal matters in a cross-border context. The Commission Communication recalls that already with the Tampere Conclusions in 1999 the European Council clearly set out the [...]
December 27, 2009 – 1:41 pm
The press release published on November 30th by the Court of Justice is worth reading by everybody interested in the European Law as well by the every individual whishing to bthe protection of its rights. The very essential and clear text is the following: The Treaty of Lisbon and the Court of Justice of the [...]
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Posted in 1. Institutional framework, 2. Values & principles of the European Union, 3. Fundamental rights, 4. European Union citizenship, 5. Asylum & refugees rights' policies, 6. Borders control policies, 7. Immigration policies, 8. Judicial cooperation, 9. Police cooperation, Data protection, Free movement, Irregular immigration, Judicial cooperation in civil matters, Judicial cooperation in criminal matters, Regular immigration, Transparency
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December 26, 2009 – 5:09 pm
Everyone knows the fundamental role of the Court of Justice in the construction of a European legal space. Indeed, thanks to its preliminary rulings which guide the work of national courts when they are called upon to enforce community law. Over the decades, the dialogue between European and national courts has ensured an increasingly faithfully [...]
December 26, 2009 – 11:08 am
Two weeks after the entry into force of the new Lisbon Treaty the main objective of which is to increase the democratic accountability of all the EU institutitions the European Parliament has invited the Council and the Commission to work together on the reform of the EU legislation in this sensitive matter building on the [...]
December 24, 2009 – 6:11 pm
Something is moving , at last, as far as protection of fundamental rights is concerned for people who have been erroneously registered by the EU or by the United nations in the so called “terrorist lists”. It is happening after years of quarrels raised at political level by the European Parliament, the Council of Europe’s [...]
