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European Commission: Press releases: 6 April 2016

06 April 2016

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- Stronger and Smarter Borders in the EU: Commission proposes to establish an Entry-Exit System (pdf)

- Smart Borders Package: Questions & Answers (pdf)

- Commission presents options for reforming the Common European Asylum System and developing safe and legal pathways to Europe (pdf)

- Commission launches discussion on future framework for stronger and smarter information systems for border management and internal security (pdf)

European Commission proposals for changing asylum system: Towards a reform of the Common European Asylum System and enhancing legal avenues to Europe (Full-text, pdf)

- Security: EU strengthens response to hybrid threats (pdf): "The European Commission and the High Representative adopted today a Joint Framework to counter hybrid threats and foster the resilience of the EU, its Member States and partner countries while increasing cooperation with NATO on countering these threats. In recent years, the EU and its Member States have been increasingly exposed to hybrid threats that comprise hostile actions designed to destabilise a region or a state." and see: Joint Framework on countering hybrid threats a European Union response (Commission and EEAS, pdf): "While definitions of hybrid threats vary and need to remain flexible to respond to their evolving nature, the concept aims to capture the mixture of coercive and subversive activity, conventional and unconventional methods (i.e. diplomatic, military, economic, technological), which can be used in a coordinated manner by state or non-state actors to achieve specific objectives while remaining below the threshold of formally declared warfare.... Massive disinformation campaigns, using social media to control the political narrative or to radicalise, recruit and direct proxy actors can be vehicles for hybrid threats."

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