ENEPO Conference on Justice and Home Affairs in European Neighbourhood Policy

On Friday, 30 November, the first conference within the ENEPO project, co-organized by CASE and CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), will be held at the CEPS headquarters in Brussels. The conference will focus on issues of migration. For more information about the conference, click here: The Wider Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

At the conference, one of the latest papers written within the ENEPO project, which appeared this month in the 'CASE Network Studies and Analyses' series, will be presented by its author,  Nicole Wichmann. In the paper, entitled "The Intersection between Justice and Home Affairs and the European Neighborhood Policy," Wichmann discusses the underlying logic and objectives attributed to cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), which can be derived from the viewpoints voiced during the formation of the ENP. She argues that  despite the existence of different logics, there is a unifying objective, which is to ‘extra-territorialise’ the management of ‘threats’ to neighbouring countries. The core of the paper presents the various policy measures that have been put in place to achieve external ‘threat management.’ After illustrating this using two case studies (one on the fight against terrorism and one on irregular migration), Wichmann recommends that the EU draft an Action-Oriented Paper on JHA cooperation with the ENP countries that indicates how the EU intends to balance the conflicting objectives and instruments that are currently present in the JHA provisions of the ENP.