Stockholm program

The Stockholm Program is a program with guidelines for a common internal and security policy of the member states of the European Union for the years 2010 to 2014.

Content

The five-year program contains the guidelines for a common policy for the protection of fundamental rights in the European Union , the protection of private life , the protection of minorities and particularly vulnerable groups as well as European citizenship . The program also formulates a new European security architecture through the expansion of police, military and intelligence cooperation and new measures in the area of data exchange and monitoring of the Internet.

It deals with areas as diverse as internal and public security , migration ( European Pact on Immigration and Asylum ), the fight against organized crime with a focus on child pornography , computer crime , human trafficking , economic and financial crime as well as drug trafficking and the fight against terrorism , but also family law , the civil law , the law of succession and others. This includes, for example, the provision of assistance for crime victims or common minimum standards for accused in criminal proceedings , the introduction of video conferencing technologies in cross-border proceedings for taking evidence and the creation of a central electronic justice portal .

There are plans to expand the capacities of Europol and Eurojust as well as the creation of interoperability of police databases, a central population register, cross-border online searches , more control of the Internet, better satellite monitoring , risk analysis using software, joint deportation planes and flights, new refugee camps in Third countries, the use of the military to prevent migration, police interventions also outside the EU, the expansion of the European gendarmerie force and increased cooperation between domestic and foreign intelligence services, etc.

history

The Stockholm Program is the successor to the Hague Program . It was prepared by the Swedish EU Council Presidency at their informal meeting on July 15-17, 2009 and named after the place of its publication ( Stockholm ). After the decision by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on December 1st, it was submitted to the European Council on December 10th and 11th, 2009 for a final vote by the heads of state and government at their summit in Brussels.

Successor program

The successor to the Stockholm program is the Post-Stockholm Program (PSP), which is intended to continue the previous priorities. In addition, there should be an answer to the problem of foreign fighters - people from Europe who take part in fighting on the side of the Syrian rebels - in adaptation to the global political situation . The PSP should also build more on solidarity when dealing with the flow of refugees from war zones.