Description:
This
book provides a multidisciplinary examination of the critical issues and
challenges associated with the EU’s initiative to build a Security Union,
particularly in relation to common policies adopted at the Member State level
aimed at countering terrorism and crime. It delves into EU efforts to support
cross-border investigations, the exchange of information and international
cooperation, taking stock of the effects on freedom and privacy.
The
various contributions offer key research findings, which contributed to the
European Commission’s 2017 Comprehensive Assessment of EU Security Policy. They
identify and explore the main constitutional dilemmas facing the Security Union
concerning EU standards enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty and the commitments undertaken
in the context of the EU Better Regulation agenda. Hence, this timely
examination of EU security policies sheds light on their effectiveness,
proportionality, fundamental rights and societal implications.
Contents:
Foreword
(Julian King)
Introduction
(Sergio Carrera and Valsamis Mitsilegas)
Part I. Cross-Border
Criminal Investigations and Preventive Justice
Chapter 1. The Security Union as a
paradigm of preventive justice: Challenges for citizenship, fundamental rights
and the rule of law (Valsamis Mitsilegas)
Chapter 2. Two crucial challenges in
cross-border criminal investigations (Anne Weyembergh)
Chapter 3. Old and new challenges to
European criminal justice (Petra Bárd)
Chapter 4. Reviewing the effectiveness
of EU counter-terrorism policies (Fiona de Londras)
Chapter 5. The Radicalisation Awareness
Network: Producing the EU counterradicalisation discourse (Diana Davila
Gordillo and Francesco Ragazzi)
Part II. EU Information
Access and Exchange, and International Cooperation
Chapter 6. Security of the interstice
and interoperable data sharing: A first cut (Deirdre Curtin)
Chapter 7. International cooperation
and the exchange of personal data: Safeguarding trust and fundamental rights (Evelien
Brouwer)
Chapter 8. A Security Union in full
respect of fundamental rights: But how effectively respectful?
(Gloria González Fuster)
Chapter 9. Will more data bring more
security? Remarks on the Security Union approach to interoperability (Reinhard
Kreissl)
Chapter 10. Cross-border access to
electronic evidence: Policy and legislative challenges (Katalin Ligeti and
Gavin Robinson)
Part III. Conclusions
Chapter 11. Constitutionalising the
Security Union (Sergio Carrera and Valsamis Mitsilegas)
List
of Abbreviations
List
of Contributors
Annex.
Programme of the Policy Workshop co-organised by CEPS and DG HOME
About
the Editors:
Sergio Carrera is a Senior Research Fellow
and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Programme at CEPS in Brussels and a
part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre at the European University
Institute in Florence.
Valsamis Mitsilegas is Professor of
European Criminal Law, Dean for Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) and
Head of the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London.
Target
Audience:
People
interested in Security and Defence Studies.