The upcoming Swedish presidency of the EU will be in charge of adopting the next multi-annual programme on an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), during its tenure in the second half of 2009. As the successor of the 2004 Hague Programme, it has already been informally baptised as the...

On 13 February 2008, the European Commission presented a new 'Border Package', setting out its vision of how to foster the further management of the EU's external border. In assessing the desirability and feasibility of the new system, CEPS JHA specialists find the Commission's proposal...

Security research has constituted, over the pas few years, a strong priority for Community policies in the field of scientific research, industry, and justice and home affairs. Community efforts in this domain have been channelled, over the period 2002-2006, through the 6th Framework programme...

The "external dimension" of the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) was formalised in the Hague Programme on "strengthening freedom, security and justice in the European Union", approved by the European Council in its meeting of 4 November 2004. In 2005, the European Commission and...