Security union

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With a safety Union (EU Security Union, Engl. : Security Union ) is a deepening and partially pooling of national security strategies and concepts of the Union Member States of the EU planned inside because the view of the European Commission's transnational threats such as terrorism, partly at EU level can be solved better than just in the national context.

development

On the basis of the European Security Agenda presented on April 28, 2015, the European Commission plans to establish an “effective and genuine” EU Security Union. On April 20, 2016, a notification and a schedule were presented. Since September 19, 2016, the British Julian King has been responsible for the Security Union in the Juncker Commission .

The basis for the Commission's plans to create an EU security union may be a. to adopt the demands of the interior ministers, the proposed directive on combating terrorism and the directive on extending the European criminal records information system ECRIS to third-country nationals as soon as possible. Likewise, the action plan to combat terrorist financing and other measures should be implemented quickly. See z. B. the

  • planned 4th money laundering directive,
  • the standardization of money laundering offenses and sanctions,
  • the proposals for combating unauthorized cash movements,
  • the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders relating to assets from criminal offenses.

aims

The objectives of the EU Security Union are, for example:

  • reduce or eliminate the threat of returning or entering the EU terrorists;
  • prevent and combat radicalization of people;
  • Punish terrorists and their supporters;
  • improve the exchange of information between the Member States of the Union;
  • strengthen the European Counter Terrorism Center;
  • To make it difficult for terrorists and to deny them access to weapons and explosives;
  • Making access to finance more difficult and impossible for terrorists;
  • Protect Union citizens and critical infrastructures.

Strategy and priorities

The strategy and the priorities of the EU Security Union are aimed at supporting the national efforts and responsibility of the Union member states and at European level to provide the necessary tools, infrastructure, measures, framework conditions etc. so that the Union member states or their competent Administrations, authorities or bodies can work together effectively.

Time schedule

The provisional timetable for the creation of the EU Security Union includes:

2nd quarter of 2016

  • Revision of the legal basis of EURODAC to improve its functionality with regard to illegal migration and prevention of return;
  • EU legal act (black list) to identify third countries with strategic deficiencies and high risk in their anti-money laundering policy / combating terrorist financing;
  • Adoption of a legislative proposal to revise the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive;
  • Measures to prevent radicalization;

3rd quarter 2016

  • Initiative to improve the effectiveness of the European Anti-Terrorism Center and strengthen the work of Europol ;
  • Improving the interoperability of the exchange of passenger data ;

4th quarter 2016

  • Adoption of a legislative proposal to harmonize criminal offenses and penalties for money laundering;
  • Adoption of a legislative proposal against illegal movements of money;
  • Adopt a legislative proposal on the mutual recognition of provisions on "freezing" and confiscating criminal assets;
  • Revision of the Schengen information system ;
  • Adoption of a legislative proposal for a directive on combating fraud and counterfeiting in the field of cashless payments;
  • Revision of the regulation on precursors for the manufacture of explosives;

1st quarter 2017

  • Adopt a legislative proposal to prevent the financing of terrorism through trade in goods;

2nd quarter 2017

  • Adoption of a legislative proposal against illegal trade in cultural goods;

Web links

literature

  • Theobald, Volkmar, “ From the European Union to the European Security Union ”, “ The Common Policy of Internal Security in the EU ”, Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-87061-624-3 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rupert Scholz pointed out as early as 1990 that a European Union could certainly not be achieved without a European Security Union ; see. Rupert Scholz: European Unification and German Question , in Detlef Merten (ed.): Föderalismus und Europäische Communities , Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07893-4 , p. 294 ff.
  2. ↑ The European Agenda on Security , COM (2015) 185 final.
  3. ↑ The way towards an effective and genuine Security Union (only in English), COM (2016) 230 final.
  4. ↑ Timetable for Initiatives (only in English), COM (2016) 230 final (Annex 1).
  5. ↑ See: European Agenda on Security: Towards a Security Union .
  6. ↑ The way towards an effective and genuine Security Union (only in English), COM (2016) 230 final, p. 2.
  7. ↑ Timetable for Initiatives (only in English), COM (2016) 230 final (Annex 1), p. 2