EU
Reflections on the first meeting of the EU working group on de-radicalisation
Over the past two days in Stockholm I have been participating in the EU’s working group on de radicalisation. As the work of this group develops I hope to share some impressions and lessons with you all. In order to give some context to these occasional posts, I should first explain the background and purpose(…)
Kamberaj v IPES: Long-Term Residents, Integration, and Access to Social Assistance in the EU
On Tuesday April 24, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published a judgment of the Grand Chamber, Kamberaj v IPES. In the judgment, the court stated that the equality provisions in Article 11 of the Long Term Residents Directive, as well as Article 34 of the EU Charter which relates to right(…)
Ziolkowski: A Cautious Judgment on the EU Right of Permanent Residence
We are pleased to publish this guest post from Stephen Coutts, a researcher at the European University Institute. Stephen is a graduate of University College Cork and the College of Europe (Bruges). His doctoral research focusses on the relationship between EU citizenship and the area of freedom, security and justice in the EU. Stephen is(…)
Free Movement Under Threat?: Ministers Debate Migration
The headline item for today’s meeting of EU justice ministers was the “Southern Neighbourhood Region”. This is a somewhat euphemistic reference to the Europe’s poor response in the face of asylum seekers fleeing Libya. Last week the threatened reintroduction of border checks to prevent asylum seekers travelling from Italy to France prompted a communication from(…)
EU Updates its Counter-Terrorism Action Plan
The EU recently published the latest edition of its Counter-Terrorism Action Plan which is, as usual, a somewhat long and scattered read. That criticism is compounded by the addition of a separate “Addendum” which contains a list of the legislative instruments that have been adopted since 2004. This latter list contains a range of actions(…)
International Women's Day and the Women's Charter
Today is International Women’s Day. The UN’s Theme for the Day is ‘Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All‘. A directory of Irish events to mark the day is available here. On March 5, the President of the European Commission launched a ‘Women’s Charter‘, which aims at building a gender perspective into all Commission policies(…)
EU and Copenhagen
In a follow-up to my earlier post regarding the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate’s Change proposed Heads for a new Climate Change Bill it has emerged that the EU has agreed a joint negotiating position ahead of the Copenhagen Conference this December. The EU has sought to take the lead at the Conference and in settling on(…)