Human rights and justice
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Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Unit…
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The production of irregularity in Europe
How to improve the living and labour conditions of irregularised migrant workers and their households
Gender, households and the production of irregularity in Europe
How migration, labour and welfare regimes reproduce gendered and intergenerational inequalities
JUSTICE, INTERRUPTED
Revisiting transitional justice, truth and reconciliation efforts at the EU level and in Germany, Romania, Spain and Sweden
Discourses about irregularised migrants at the EU level
Representation and narratives in the European Commission, the European Parliament and civil society
A cold, hard look in the mirror
Issues and priorities for the EU’s area of freedom, security and justice in the wake of Trump 2.0
Irregularising Human Mobility
EU Migration Policies and the European Commission’s Role
Global Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role
Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees
A rule of law agenda for 2030
Priorities for a principled area of freedom, security and justice
Irregularised migration and the next European Commission
Ensuring enforcement and intersectional monitoring of the rule of law and fundamental rights
Reconstitutionalising privacy
EU-US data transfers and their impact on the rule of law, rights and trust
Humanising EU migration policy
The transitioning of statuses in the EU regular and labour migration law
Asylum Governance Instruments in Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey
Status Determination, Structural Vulnerability and the Right to Work
The Judicialisation of the European Arrest Warrant
Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights as Preconditions for Merited Mutual Trust
Gendered migrant integration policies in the EU
Are we moving towards delivery of equality, non-discrimination and inclusion?
Towards a principled level playing field for an open and secure online environment
Regulation, enforcement and oversight of online content moderation in the EU and the United Kingdom
The Declaration on a Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism and EU Asylum Policy
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back on Equal Solidarity
The EU grants temporary protection for people fleeing war in Ukraine
Time to rethink unequal solidarity in EU asylum policy
Limitations on Human Mobility in Response to COVID-19
A preliminary mapping and assessment of national and EU policy measures, their sanctioning frameworks, implementation tools and enforcement practices
20 year anniversary of the Tampere Programme
Europeanisation Dynamics of the EU area of Freedom, Security and Justice
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The GRACE project aims to level up the implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Member States, which…
In recent years, the Returns and Readmissions policy has become the preferred solution for the EU and its member states…
The projectspeaks to a cross-section of the Commission’s political priorities for 2019-2024, notably its ‘new push for European Democracy’. To…
Within the JEKHIPE project (2024-2026), the European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network (ERGO), acting as coordinators, the European Roma Institute for…
The Conference on the Future of Europe is a milestone in the history of the development of participatory democracy in…
(1) CEPS will contribute Ethical, Legal, Socio-Economic (ELSE) research and guidelines for the FLEXIGROBOTS platform (WP2, lead for task 4…
The ASILE project studies the interactions between emerging international protection systems and the United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN…
The Hidden Treasures Program, a joint initiative by Donald Kalff and Andrea Renda launched in the fall of 2019, aims…
EU-CITZEN establishes a new Academic Network on European Citizenship Rights aimed at providing the European Commission with the best independent…
The Directorate general for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) has commissioned Centre for European Policy…
This Report, a joint effort between Donald Kalff and a group of CEPS researchers led by Andrea Renda, aims at…
The JUD-IT project aims at providing an in-depth comparative assessment of promising practices and practical and legal challenges in securing,…
The Impact of Euroscepticism in the construction of Europe is a project under the EU program Europe for Citizensinvolving five cities, namely Gijón (Spain), Nüremberg…
The purpose of this grant (ENGAGE project II) is to continue facilitating the participation of representatives from NGOs, Civil Society…
The aim of the SOURCE Network of Excellence is to create a robust and sustainable virtual centre of excellence capable…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs and requested by the European…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities (TRANSMIC) is a project funded under the FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN call and…
The EU seeks to build a comprehensive immigration policy in which legally residing non-EU nationals, referred to as third-country nationals…
The purpose of this grant was to facilitate the participation of representatives from NGOs, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and think…
OSEPI contributes to bridging the current gap between policy-makers and CSOs by commissioning research exploring the feasibility of ‘outsourcing’ asylum…
The Study aims to provide the necessary clarity by carrying out an in-depth assessment of the EUTFs and the FRT,…
Border control, surveillance operations and expulsion of irregular immigrants –particularly through return flights –can pose serious challenges to human rights.…
The project examined the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affect civil…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
EURA-NET is an international research project funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for the period 2014-2017. The objective…
Since its inception in 2003/4, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has attracted the interest of many research analysts across a…
The notion of ‘anti-Gypsyism’ aims to refocus public policies addressing Roma discrimination in order to place responsibility for combating structural,…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizen’s Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
This Research Paper examines the costs of non-Europe in the field of organised crime. It provides an interdisciplinary analysis of…
The European Union is founded on a set of common principles of democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights,…
This study was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of…
FIDUCIA is a research project that will shed light on a number of distinctively “new European” criminal behaviours that have…
ILEC was a two-year research project co-funded by the European Commission’s DG Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights which aimed to…
Starting in May 2021, CEPS launched a new edition of its “Young Thinkers Initiative”. CEPS selected 30 brilliant young minds…
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Since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, gender equality has been recognised as a…
A large-scale US intelligence surveillance scandal (PRISM and UPSTREAM) was unveiled by Edward Snowden in 2013. The US authorities were…
Preventing digital communication tools and platforms from being used as vectors for the production, exchange and dissemination of illegal or…
Faced with the prospect of a long-lasting and traumatic Covid-19 pandemic, we at CEPS decided to step up our efforts…