EU start nieuw project om immigratie uit Middellands Zeegebied te beheersen (en)
The European Commission has signed a contract with the Florence-based European University Institute to carry out a support project for inmigration, movements of persons and social integration of inmigrants in the Mediterranean region. The € 2 million project is funded under the MEDA programme and will have a duration of 3 years. It aims to monitor, analyse and forecast flows in the EU and Mediterranean region with a view to help the Mediterranean Partners in their efforts to develop and implement migration policies. The project will carry out the activities envisaged in the third component of the MEDA Regional Programme on Justice, Combating Drugs, Organised Crime and Terrorism, launched in 2003.
The project, under the responsability of EuropeAid Co-operation Office, will build up, for the first time, a joint information system on migration for the EU Member States and its Mediterranean Partners, a new instrument for the analysis and forecasting of migration flows. It will also develop regional expertise on migration through targeted teaching activities and applied research, carry out study work, and disseminate results through publications and a web site.
The project approach will be multidimensional since it will cover simultaneously different aspects of migration demo-economic, legal, social and political in a interconnected way. The analysis will cover the complete migration chain, that is the countries of origin and those of arrival, using homogeneous categories with a view to ensure comparison at international level.
Background
Following the recommendations of the Foreign Ministers at their meeting in Marseilles (November 2000), a framework document on good governance and the rule of law was adopted by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the EU and its 12 Mediterranean Partners during their meeting in Valencia in April 2003. The document endorsed the idea of a regional programme in the field of justice, in combating drugs, organised crime and terrorism as well as co-operation in the treatment of issues relating to the social integration of migrants, migration and movements of persons.
The focus of the programme is to encourage reform of and co-operation between judicial systems, combating organised crime and drugs, and ensuring a joint approach to the management of migratory flows, without losing sight of the overall balance of the partnership, notably with regard to the immigration issue.
The programme has a total budget of € 6 million and will be implemented between 2003 and 2006.
Three types of actions will be covered by the programme:
Training of magistrates, lawyers and clerks and establishment of a permanent Euro-Mediterranean network of legal training, aimed at directors of schools or Magistrates' Training Institutes (Judges and Prosecutors), of lawyers and justice officials, of legal administrative staff; or persons responsible for the training of magistrates, lawyers and clerks. € 2 million from the programme were allocated for these actions. Activities to be carried out by this component have not started yet.
Training of police officers and other officials with relevant specialisations for better regional police cooperation, addressing persons responsible for central services in charge of police and legal international cooperation, directors of schools, academies or training institutes of police forces. € 2 million from the programme were allocated for these actions and a contract signed with CEPOL the last week of February 2004. The first activity will be a training seminar for police officers that will take place on 2 and 3 March.
Monitoring, analysing, and forecasting migratory flows in the EU and Mediterranean Partners with a view to helping the Partners in their efforts to develop and implement migration policies. € 2 million from the programme were allocated for these actions and contract signed with European University Institute on 1 February 2004.
More information:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/med/index_en.htm