Security cooperation, counterterrorism, and EU–North Africa cross-border security relations, a legal perspective
The EU is clearly in the process of developing an external dimension to the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). This paper focuses on ex. Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters (PJCCM) provisions. These developments pose specific legal basis issues for the EU, given its complex EU–member state legal relationship, and the inter-institutional balance, all reflected in the treaty framework post-Lisbon. New Court of Justice rulings are now emerging which will assist in this issue. Equally the approach to be taken in developing these relationships will be crucial. This paper proposes the adoption of an Onuf style constructivism in order to best capture the reality of the process that is developing, and has developed for the ex. PJCCM measures internally. This then needs to be allied with a constitutionalism model to ensure a balanced development of all three aspects of the AFSJ.
Uncertainties at the European Union's southern borders: actors, policies, and legal frameworks
A multiplicity of legal and political arrangements regulate the European Union's external borders. With borders representing the intersection between national and international law and politics, the EU also acquired some legal competences in this realm. The resulting triple set of rules coincides with the growing disaggregation of the classical functions of borders. This state of affairs generates legal and procedural uncertainties and results in a growing ambiguity and lack of transparency, in terms of competences and accountability. Due to the EU's concerns with transnational terrorism, and the growing securitization of migration, the EU's borders with the states of the Middle East and North Africa are particularly relevant in this regard, with the resulting uncertainties touching upon fundamental rights. This article discusses the conceptual starting point of the growing institutional, legal, and political complexity at the EU's southern borders, together with relevant aspects and developments, thus also providing the background to the different contributions in this special issue.
La dimension méditerranéenne de la politique Justice et Affaires intérieures
Justice et Affaires interieures : un objectif de politique etrangere Au lendemain de la fin de la Guerre froide, les phenomenes de la « deterritorialisation » des menaces ainsi que de la reconceptualisation de la notion de frontieres accompagnaient une transformation du concept de securite europeenne . La globalisation et la transnationalisation des menaces ont en effet provoque une alteration progressive des notions de frontieres interieures et exterieures. Les frontieres contemporaines, pro...