Workshop: Internal and External EU Security Perspectives

On Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 November, Anniek de Ruijter and Hylke Dijkstra will organise a CERiM-sponsored workshop at Maastricht University Campus Brussels aiming at highlighting actual or potential synergies between (1) health and security issues, (2) internal and external challenges, and (3) legal and policy perspectives. The workshop is open to CERiM members and interested colleagues. Please register with Hylke Dijkstra.

This academic workshop brings together academics and policy experts in the field of public health and security policy with the purpose of discussing innovative research and establishing closer contacts. The workshop aims at highlighting actual or potential synergies between (1) health and security issues, (2) internal and external challenges, and (3) legal and policy perspectives. The purpose is to stimulate a cross-fertilization of ideas on knowledge, research and policy challenges between policy makers and academics from a variety of scientific disciplines and approaches.

The workshop will include discussions on Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases as Security Threats as well as Bioterrorism and Chemical Attacks. We address naturally occurring disease outbreaks as threats to both internal and external security. After the outbreak of Swineflu in 2009, in 2013 a new regulatory framework has been adopted to respond and monitor infectious diseases, which overlaps with the regulatory framework devised to address bio-terrorist and chemical threats. It is interesting to highlight that this regulatory framework has now been tested in the course of a number of public health events.

The workshop also focuses on Bioterrorism and Chemical Attacks. EU has long been aware of the terrorist threat. Following the attacks on 11 September 2001, the EU adopted the European Security Strategy in 2003, which identifies terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as two of the most significant threats. The 2005 European Counter-Terrorism Strategy similarly identifies the risk of CBRN. While the cross-border nature of the issue is widely acknowledged, the EU and other international bodies are still largely organized around a strict separation of internal and external security.

Programme

  • Hylke Dijkstra & Anniek de Ruijter — Introduction / Scoping Paper (Security and Public Health)
  • Mark Flear — Health across ‘All Policies’: Towards Improved Health Security and Equity across EU Internal and External Activities
  • Caitriona McLeish — Thinking again about chemical terrorism
  • Marco Rizzi — The EU in the face of pandemics: domestic rules in a transnational context
  • James Revill — Past as Prologue? The adoption of chemical and biological weapons by non-state actors
  • Vigjilenca Abazi — The Security Exceptions to Transparency in the Compound EU Legal Order

Registration

The workshop takes place at the Maastricht University Campus Brussels from 21 November (13.00) until 22 November (13.00). The workshop is open to all CERiM members and other interested colleagues. Please register with Hylke Dijkstra. The workshop receives generous financial support from the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM).

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