2 resultados para Area planning
em Archive of European Integration
Resumo:
With the Stockholm Programme coming to an end in 2014, the Brussels Community is increasing agitated with a recurring question: what will replace the Stockholm Programme? Paradoxically, this uncertainty is fuelled by the existence of a new and clear Treaty provision Article 68 TFEU which states The European Council shall define the strategic guidelines for legislative and operational planning within the area of freedom, security and justice. Clear in its wording, this provision may lead to different understandings and unclear implications in practice. In order to provide more clarity, the European Policy Centre (EPC) set up a Task Force to reflect on the impact of this provision and more generally the future of the area of freedom, security and justice after 2014. Results of this process are reflected in this discussion paper which addresses the process and content regarding the definition of future strategic guidelines.
Resumo:
In its Conclusions of 26-27 June 2014, the European Council has adopted the new Strategic Guidelines for Legislative and Operational Planning for the coming years within the EUs Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). These Guidelines reveal a pre-Lisbon Treaty mindset among the EU member states and the Justice and Home Affairs Council. This essay argues that the Guidelines are mainly driven by the interests and agendas of national Ministries of Interior and Justice and are only strategic to the extent that they aim at first, re-injecting intergovernmentalism or bringing back the old EU Third Pillar ways of working to the new EU institutional setting of the AFSJ and second, at sidelining the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and rule of law in the AFSJ. The paper argues that the European Council Guidelines seek to prevent the advances in Justice and Home Affairs cooperation as envisaged in the Treaty of Lisbon, particularly its emphasis on supranational democratic, legal and judicial accountability. As a consequence of this move to de-Lisbonise JHA cooperation, fundamental rights and rule of law-related initiatives will be neglected and the interest of the individual will be displaced from the centre of gravity in the coming AFSJ 2020 policy agenda.
