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In this section, you can find key information and documents related to events of the European Security Round Table.

European Security Research

EUROPEAN COMMISION more

COM(2004) 0072: Towards a programme to advance European security through research and technology, 3 February 2004
Research for a Secure Europe. Report of the group of personalities in the field of Security Research

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT more

P6_TA(2005) 0259: Resolution on Security Research – The Next Steps, 23 June 2005

THINK TANKS more

Transnational Institute: Arming Big Brother - The EU's security research programme, April 2006
ISIS Europe: EU Research and Innovation Policy and the Future of the Common Foreign Security Policy, October 2006
Sicherheitsforschung aus Sicht des European Security Research Advisory Boards (ESRAB)

OTHER more

ESRIF Intermediate Report: European Research and Innovation in Support of European Security Policies, September 2008
European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF): Public-Private Dialogue in Security Research
Meeting the Challenge – The European Security Research Agenda (ESRAB): Final report of the European Security Research Advisory Board

European Counter-Terrorism Policy

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION more

Council Framework Decision amending Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism, 23 April 2008
EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy - Discussion paper, 19 November 2008
9417/08: Council working document 03-04-2008 to modify FD 2002/475/JHA, 19 May 2008
Report on terrorism situation and trends 2008 (TE-SAT report), Europol

EUROPEAN COMMISSION more

MEMO/07/98: Commission Activities in the Fight Against Terrorism, 12 March 2007
COM(2004) 700: Communication on the prevention of and the fight against terrorist financing, 20 October 2004
COM(2004)409: Report from the European Commission on Article 11 of the Council Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism, 8 June 2004
COM(2007)0649: Stepping up Europe's capability to protect citizens against the threat of terrorism, 6 November 2004
COM(2005)0313: Terrorist Recruitment: addressing the factors contributing to violent radicalisation, 21 September 2005
Commission Staff Working Document: Accompanying document to the Proposal for a COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION amending Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism, June 2008
COM (2007) 650 to revise Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism
COM(2007) 0651 on securing the security of explosives
SEC (2007) 1424: Impact Assessment to COM(2007)0650, Proposal for a Council Framework Decision amending Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism.
SEC (2007) 1425: Summary of the Impact Assessment to COM(2007) 0650, Proposal for a Council Framework Decision amending Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism.
SEC(2007) 1424: Impact Assessment to COM(2007)0650 on Enhancing the Security of Explosives
SEC(2007) 1425: Summary of the Impact Assessment to COM(2007) 0650 on Enhancing the Security of Explosives

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT more

EP resolution on the proposal for a Decision amending 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism, 23 September 2008
Public provocation to commit terrorist offences – Summary of the Round Table European and National Parliaments
Defis du juge national et du legislateur dans la lutte de l'UE contre le terrorisme (FR only)
PE 393.250: Human rights concerns relevant to legislating on provocation or incitement to terrorism and related offences, March 2008
Preventing violent radicalisation and terrorist recruitment in the EU

THINK TANKS more

World Security Institute, Brussels: A Brief History of Terrorism, 2 July 2003
World Security Institute, Brussels: CDI Primer: Terrorism Beyond Islam, 19 March 2004
EastWest Institute: Countering Violent Extremism: Lessons of the Abrahamic Faiths, October 2007
GCSP: Ethics, Civil Liberties, Globalization and Global Security, 28 September 2006
World Security Institute, Brussels: Eurabia Rising: Is the Enemy Really at Europe's Gate? 21 May 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: Euro-View: Internet Policing, 18 December 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: Explaining Religious Terrorism Part 1, 21 May 2004
World Security Institute, Brussels: Explaining Religious Terrorism Part 2, 17 May 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: In the Spotlight: Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA), 14 August 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: In the Spotlight: Hezbollah (Party of God), 24 August 2006
World Security Institute, Brussels: In the Spotlight: Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM), 23 April 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: In the Spotlight: Organization of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, 30 April 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: Judging Terrorist Capability, 11 August 2006
World Security Institute, Brussels: Lessons of the attack: Carnage in Madrid a reminder of every society's vulnerabilities to terrorism, 16 March 2004
World Security Institute, Brussels: London: Another Terrorist Blitz? 22 July 2005
EastWest Institute: Protect! Civilians and Civil Rights in Counter-Terrorism, August 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: Terrorism, Revisited, 19 April 2004
World Security Institute, Brussels: Terrorism: The Problems of Definition, 1 August 2003
World Security Institute, Brussels: Terrorism: What's Coming, The Mutating Threat, 2007
World Security Institute, Brussels: The Meaning of the London Attacks, 8 July 2005
World Security Institute, Brussels: The UN and Terrorism: Defining the Indefinable? 16 September 2005
World Security Institute, Brussels: Why Glasgow was already in the frontline in the UK's 'War on Terrorism', 2 July 2007

OTHERS more

COSAC report on the result of the subsidiarity check mechanism on the Commission proposal for a Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism
Replies to the COSAC questionnaire by National Parliaments on the subsidiarity check
Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism of 16 May 2005
Eurojust Annual Report 2007
Draft Own Initiative Opinion, COC, on Stepping Up the Fight against Terrorism: Involvement of Regional and Local Authorities, 8-9 October 2008.
Background information on the work of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human rights as regards terrorism and human rights issues, 21 February 2008
Report of the PACE Counter-terrorism Committee to the UN Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 1624 (2005), 4-6 December 2006
Collection of relevant case-law of the European Court of Human rights related to "apologie du terrorisme" and "incitement to terrorism" (PACE document)
Recueil de la jusrisprudence pertinente de la Cour europ?enne des droits de l'Homme sur l'apologie du terrorisme (2004-2008) (FR only)
Amendment to the Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism ? Provocation to Commit a Terrorist Offence, by the International commission of jurists (ICJ)

Space and Security

EUROPEAN COMMISSION more

COM(2007) 212: European Space Policy Summary, 26 April 2007
COM(2005) 208: European Space Policy - Preliminary Elements, 23 May 2005
COM (2004) 65: GMES (2004): Establishing a GMES capacity by 2008, 3 Feb 2004
COM(2005) 565: GMES (2005): From Concept to Reality, 10 November 2005
COM (2003) 17: Green Paper on European Space Policy
Report of the panel of experts on space and security, 1 March 2005
COM(2003) 673: White Paper on European Space Policy. Space: a new European frontier for an expanding Union 11 November 2003

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT more

P6_TA(2008)0365: Resolution on Space and Security
P6_TA(2008)0564: Resolution on the European space policy: how to bring space down to earth
Rede von Karl von Wogau, MdEP auf der Europäische
Sicherheitsforschungskonferenz am 26. M?rz 2007
2008/2030(INI): Draft report on the contribution of space assets to ESDP (14 March 2008)
P5_TA-PROV(2004)0054: Resolution on Space Policy White Paper

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY more

11616/3/04: Report of the panel of experts on space and security, 16 November 2004

EU INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES more

Space and Security Policy in Europe, December 2003
The Galileo Satellite System and its Security Implications, April 2003

European Security Strategy

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION more

European Security Strategy – A secure europe in a better world, 12 December 2003
Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy, 11 December 2008
15708/03: EU strategy against proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, 10 December 2003
Code of Conduct Defence Procurement of the EU member states participating in the EU defense strategy, 21 November 2005

EUROPEAN COMMISSION more

COM(2003) 113: European Defence – Industrial and Market Issues - Towards an EU Defence Equipment Policy, 11 March 2003
COM(2004) 72: Towards a programme to advance European security through research and technology, 3 February 2004
COM(2005)626: Communication on results Greenpaper defence procurement and on the future Commission initiatives, 6 December 2005
Report of the Group of Personalities in the Field of Security Research, 2004
ENTR/C: Consultation Paper on Intra-Community Transfer of Defence Products, 21 March 2006

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT more

EP Resolution on the implementation of the European Security Strategy in the context of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESPD), 16 November 2006
2006/2033(INI): EP Resolution on the new European security architecture - priorities and deficiencies,16 November 2006
P5_TA(2003)0188: EP resolution on Security Research – The Next Steps
P5_TA(2003)0188: EP resolution on the European Security Strategy

EU INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES more

Chaillot Paper 71, Une autre lecture de la PESD, Phillippe de Schoutheete, October 2004
Defence Procurement in the European Union – The Current Debate, May 2005
EU Security and Defence Policy – The First Five Years, 2004
European Defence   A Proposal for a White Paper, May 2004
Chaillot Paper 87   EU Security and Defence - Core Documents March 2005

SIPRI more

Cornish, P./Anthony, I.: Nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological threat to the European Union 2005-2013, 2005
Bailes, A.: The European Security Strategy, An Evolutionary History, 2005
Bauer, S./Bromley, M.: The European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, 2004