LA COOPERACIÓN EN JUSTICIA Y EN POLÍTICA INTERIOR ANTE LOS RETOS DEL SIGLO XXI

Guía Docente 

Francisco J. Fonseca Morillo​

Profesor de Derecho Público en la Universidad CEU San Pablo.

Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta

Catedrático de Derecho y Letrado del Tribunal Constitucional. Universidad Pública de Navarra.

1. Introduction.
 

2. The legal texts.
 

3. The Member States and the Union.

• Three stages: EC (1951-1992); EC and EU (1993-1999); EU (from 1999).
• Schengen (1985).
• Variable geometry: UK and IE; DK; non-EU countries.
• Institutional subtleties.

4. Policy.

• Main documents: Tampere (1999); The Hague (2004), Stockholm (2009).
• Brussels guidelines (2014).
• The end of the transitional period (December 2014).

5. Justice.

• The courts in Europe.
• Judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.
• Civil justice: Brussels regulations; Rome regulations; other topics.
• Criminal justice: courts.
• Criminal justice: prosecutors.

6. Home affairs: police cooperation.

• Polices in Europe.
• The flow of information.
• Operations.

7. Home affairs: borders.

• Border controls, asylum and immigration. Citizenship and freedom of movement.
• Borders and frontiers. Internal and external borders.
• Border control.
• Border vigilance. Land, air and sea borders.

8. Transversal topics.

• Coercion and fundamental rights.
• Personal identification: documents, registries, databases.
• Information and data protection.
• Solidarity and money.