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 Research Assistant 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…
Anjum Shabbir is Associate Researcher in the Justice and Home Affairs Department at CEPS. Currently…
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The CEPS Ideas Lab is an innovative platform of exchange and co-creation that brings together think tanks from across Europe,…
Related Publications
Here are the latest publications related to this topic.
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
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
European Union Policies on Onward and Secondary Movements of Asylum-seekers and Refugees
A Critical Overview of the EU’s Migration Management Complex
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
Between politics and inconvenient evidence
Assessing the Renewed EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling
Walling off Responsibility?
The Pushbacks at the EU’s External Borders with Belarus
The end of an era
The Polish Constitutional Court’s judgment on the primacy of EU law and its effects on mutual trust
Cross-border data access in criminal proceedings and the future of digital justice
Navigating the current legal framework and exploring ways forward within the EU and across the Atlantic
In the Name of COVID-19
An Assessment of the Schengen Internal Border Controls and Travel Restrictions in the EU
20 year anniversary of the Tampere Programme
Europeanisation Dynamics of the EU area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Love thy neighbour?
Coronavirus politics and their impact on EU freedoms and rule of law in the Schengen Area
Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union
Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justice, 1st Edition
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
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…
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.
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…