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Privacy by design
Atelier ‘Privacy by design, Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 23 March Read more →
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EU rådgiverforsamling om 7RP
EU rådgiverforsamling om 7RP, Oslo, Gardermoen Read more →
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The Lisbon Treaty: Europe’s Changing Security Landscape
The Lisbon Treaty: Europe’s Changing Security Landscape, The Fair Observer, 15 October. Link here. Read more →
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A necessary naïveté (in Norwegian)
From Morgenbladet 5 August 2011 Den tidligere lederen til det franske høyreradikale partiet Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen skal ha sagt denne uken at én årsak til terrorangrepet 22. juli var at nordmenn har vært ”naive” om terrortruslene de står overfor. (Aftenposten 31.07). Med dette mener han trolig at nordmenn har vist et uansvarlig mangel… Read more →
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What is societal security?
[Speech held for the European Security Research Programme Workshop Security research and Europe’s societal challenges: What do citizens want?, Oslo, 8 June 2011]. 1 Among the many successes of the European Security Research Programme is the growing wisdom and insight into what security actually means in our day. Most prominently this can be seen in… Read more →
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Universal exceptionalism
Exceptionalism is the new word of order in European migration policy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met on 26 April to propose a fundamental reform of the Schengen border-free area: a national exception to a hard-won European accomplishment: The Schengen Area. The Area, which permits visa-free circulation accross internal borders… Read more →
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The International Community recreates itself
The International Community’s role in the crisis in Libya changed dramatically when NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced on Saturday that NATO Allies ‘have decided to take on the whole military operation in Libya under the United Nations Security Council Resolution’ (see announcement here). The step, he continued, ‘proves NATO’s capability to take decisive… Read more →
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Club Europa in Lampedusa
A completely unique conjuncture of events has brought a new wave of undocumented migration to Europe and with it a new wave of principled challenges to European responses to it. There is widespread awareness in Europe and elsewhere of the tidal change set off by the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia. Now overshadowed by hyper-mediatized events… Read more →
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Junk Europe
In a matter of days Hungary becomes the new princess of Europe, taking over the rotating EU presidency from Belgium. As Reuters reports, Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded Hungarian sovereign debt to near junk status from Baa1 to Baa3. Fitch Rating, (the second of the top-three global credit raters, together with Moody’s and Standard &… Read more →
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Rapid reactions in Greece
European history was made on Thursday as the EU Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) was deployed for the first time every in its history. The team, one of several operated by Frontex, the European Border Management Agency, created in 2007, was deployed on the request of the Greek government in order to help to stop… Read more →
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