Following Tampere 1999 and Hague 2004, the EU plans to decide the next five-year plan on “Justice and Home Affairs” (JHA) this year.
After the implementation of data retention and new databases, the
creation of “Frontex” and the “European Security Research Programme” ,
the “harmonization” of terrorism laws and more surveillance of the
internet, next severe changes are foreseen to bet set in the new
guideline.
Under swedish EU presidency in the second half of 2009, probably in
November or December, the ministers of interior and justice will meet
to agree the new “Stockholm Programme”.
A self-announced “Future Group” of some of the ministers, initiated
under german EU presidency 2007, already published the wishlist
“European Home Affairs in an open world”:
An EU population register, ‘remote’ forensic searches of computer
hard drives, internet surveillance systems, more implementation of
satellites and ‘drone’ planes for surveillance, automated exit-entry
systems operated by machines, autonomous targeting systems, risk
assessment and profiling systems, e-borders, passenger profiling
systems, an EU ‘entry-exit’ system, joint EU expulsion flights,
dedicated EU expulsion planes, EU-funded detention centres and refugee
camps in third countries (even “overseas”), expansion of the
para-military European Gendarmerie Force, deployment of EU Battle
Groups, crisis management operations in Africa, permanent EU military
patrols in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, more power for EU agencies,
interlinking of national police systems, an EU criminal record, a
permanent EU Standing Committee on internal security (COSI) dealing with operational matters, more partnerships with the security industry.
