The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council approved its Internal Security Strategy on 25 February 2010. The document’s approval was one of the priorities for the Spanish Presidency within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, and its goal was to present the available instruments to guarantee the security and freedom of European citizens, develop new instruments and policies and strengthen cooperation with regard to police, judicial, border control and civil protection matters.
An analysis of the document reveals two possible interpretations of the strategy: a purpose-based interpretation, whereby effectively the purpose of the strategy goes no further than its own approval, and another instrumental interpretation, whereby the strategy serves to transform European internal security. This ARI reviews the background of the Internal Security Strategy, the approved content and the omissions which, overall, make the document look more like a statement of intent than a set of guidelines for transformation.
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