Europe - new material (23)
01 December 1997
Openness and transparency: meaningful or meaningless? Access to information on the European Union. Seven papers - including ones from the Council the Commission the European Parliament. Swedish Justice Ministry and Statewatch - from the conference organised by the European Information Association in December 1996. EIA Central Library St Peter's Square Manchester M2 5PD, 38 pages copies £5.00.
Draft revision of the EU Treaties: response on the Dublin II Outline and the Addendum of the Dutch Presidency. Standing committee of experts on international immigration refugee and criminal law April 1997 13 pages. Very useful resume with proposals on openness national parliaments the new chapter on asylum and immigration and the "old" Title VI.
Postnational democracy: the European Union in search of a political philosophy. Utrecht University April 1997. Inaugural professorial lecture by Deirdre Curtin tackles the role of groups in civil society in the EU. A revised and substantially expanded version is published by Kluwer ISBN 90-411-0447-x.
A European common foreign and security policy. Wilton Park paper no 123 HMSO 5.00 32 pages. Discussion on the future of the second pillar
United Europe Norman Baxter. Policing Today March 1997 pp26- 28. Basic summary of post-Maastricht policing which notes in passing that "there is little information available about crime trends within Europe and few serious attempts have been made to identify crime levels across Europe not to mention cross-border crime."
Democracy Migrants and the Police in the European Union: The 1996 IGC and beyond Standing Committee of experts in international immigration refugee and criminal law Utrecht (Forum) 1997. Chapters on open government in Schengen and the European Union the European Court of Justice and the Third Pillar Europol the refugee concept in the EU asylum procedures forced repatriation readmission agreements and proposals for the revision of the Treaty at the IGC.
Schengen-Europol-Interpol: Konkurrenz oder Partnerschaft? (Competition or Partnership?) Joachim Sturm Kriminalistik
1997 No.1 pp.99-104. The author a senior civil servant in the German Interior Ministry argues that an incorporation of Schengen into the EU at the present could endanger the "dynamic of Schengen" and that "the Schengen cooperation as the motor of the development of the EU has to be preserved".