Format: lecture & seminar

The last year, the Schengen and JHA system has been shaken to its core by the scale of the refugee crisis and by the pending exit of the UK from the EU. In keeping pace with the latest events in the area of justice and home affairs and Schengen instruments, this course ends with a lecture and seminar on the challenges that the EU is currently facing with the reintroduction of internal borders and the imminent withdrawal of a key security actor, the UK, from EU’s JHA framework. 

Question for a short position paper and subsequent in-class discussion (question is based on reading):  Should internal borders be reinstated in the EU? Substantiate your answer.

Reading:                                                                                          

-          Camino Mortera-Martinez, ‘Arrested development: Why Brexit Britain cannot keep the European Arrest Warrant’, CER Paper, London 2017.

-          Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild and Ngo Chun Luk, ‘What does Brexit mean for the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?’, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels 2016.

-          European Commission, Communication ‘Back to Schengen - A Roadmap’, Brussels 2016.

-          Elspeth Guild, Evelien Brouwer, Kees Groenendijk and Sergio Carrera, ‘What is happening to the Schengen borders?’, CEPS Papers in Liberty and Security in Europe, 2015, No. 86.