نحو قوة أورو-متوسطية للشرطة وتسيير الحدود

Abstract

This study offers an analysis of the “institutionalization” of police and border management in the Mediterranean. One of the guiding questions throughout the study will be whether the Euro-Med cooperation in police and border management fields constitutes a common defensive and security force to both of EU and their southern neighbors or not.

Following an inductive approach, this study investigates the role of Eurojust,Europol, CEPOL and especially Frontex through the creation of a net work of specialized police officers and trainers by the creation of specific didactical material (training modules and case studies) and by the creation of thematic police report and information sharing on specific legislations…etc. (part 1). Second, It will then be argued that effective police and border management is depending on cooperation with EU’s neighborswithin the framework of the European Neighborhood policy (ENP,especially in the field of transnational threats such as terrorism, IrregularImmigration, drug trafficking, money laundering.. etc (part 2).

Finally, drawing from the two previous sections, this study will attempt to raise some crucial issues about the opportunity of externalizing surveillance technologies to authoritarian regimes in the South. The EU finds itself confronted to a dilemma in which it seeks police and border management cooperation in the Mediterranean with law enforcement agencies which are not enjoying fullindependency from the executive power, and do not apply basic principles of justice.Accordingly, the lawfulness of the practices of the EU and its Member States in their relations with Neighboring Mediterranean countries in the field of police and border management is to be assessed against that broader framework of States’ obligations derived from the interaction of different legal orders (part 3).