Justice and Home Affairs
CEPS Staff involved
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Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Unit…
Davide Colombi is a Researcher in the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Unit at CEPS.…
Miriam Mir is Project Officer in the Justice and Home Affairs Unit. Since 2008 she…
Related Events
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Related Expert commentaries
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The democratic rule of law is badly deteriorating in many parts of the world and those responsible are hiding in…
The Italian government’s recent refusal to comply with an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant exposes deep-rooted hypocrisy in EU…
It’s a common misconception that institutional ‘ethics’ is a question of morality. Believing that ethical misconduct – such as…
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Related Publications
Here are the latest publications related to this topic.
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
A critical appraisal of the EU’s regular migration system
Objectifying, structurally discriminatory and not aligned with basic EU and international standards
Global Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role
Rights and Responsibilities in Implementing the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees
The 2023 Italy-Albania protocol on extraterritorial migration management
A worst practice in migration and asylum policies
Asylum Governance Instruments in Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey
Status Determination, Structural Vulnerability and the Right to Work
Proposal for a regulation addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum
Substitute impact assessment
The Judicialisation of the European Arrest Warrant
Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights as Preconditions for Merited Mutual Trust
Paving the Way for Truth and Reconciliation Process to Address Antigypsyism in Europe
Remembrance, Recognition, Justice and Trust-Building
An Assessment of the State of the EU Schengen Area and its External Borders
A Merited Trust Model to Uphold Schengen Legitimacy
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
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
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 project investigates the living and working conditions of irregularised migrant households in Europe from an intersectional perspective. It aims…
Within the JEKHIPE project (2024-2026), the European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network (ERGO), acting as coordinators, the European Roma Institute for…
To solve the lack of empathy and mutual understanding among users in large-scale online deliberation and digital democracy platforms, CEPS…
The Conference on the Future of Europe is a milestone in the history of the development of participatory democracy in…
The ASILE project studies the interactions between emerging international protection systems and the United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been deep and wide. In spite of unprecedented efforts to understand the COVID-19…
Prediction and management of migration are a major challenge for the European Union and also for many different stakeholder groups…
EU-CITZEN establishes a new Academic Network on European Citizenship Rights aimed at providing the European Commission with the best independent…
This project will achieve regular collaboration between Europe’s well-developed networks of migration researchers and stakeholders for the purpose of evidence-based…
The JUD-IT project aims at providing an in-depth comparative assessment of promising practices and practical and legal challenges in securing,…
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 IPEPS project aims at complementing degree-level programmes led by Universities by enriching the background knowledge that students acquire in…
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…
This Study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department forCitizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee…
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.…
This Study was carried out by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Programme and…
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…
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the…
The 284 initiatives entered for the 2016 Civil Society Prize competition provide an inspiring set of experiences and successful practices…
EURA-NET is an international research project funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for the period 2014-2017. The objective…
The notion of ‘anti-Gypsyism’ aims to refocus public policies addressing Roma discrimination in order to place responsibility for combating structural,…
The project will contribute to the development of an effective and humanitarian European response to the migration crisis in the…
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…
In March 2017, the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, effectively starting the process…
Related Task Forces
Here are the latest task forces organised by this unit.
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…
Cross-border data access in criminal proceedings and the future of digital justice
When investigating and prosecuting crime, a wide range of law enforcement and criminal justice actors increasingly seek to obtain electronic…
The Task Force, which builds on the research findings generated in the EU-funded JUD-IT project, aims at highlighting and addressing…
This Task Force aims at informing the policy debate on e-evidence in criminal matters, as it unfolds at the EU…
Brexit raises profound questions regarding the future of the EU/UK cross-border cooperation in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice…