Internal Security Strategy: open and safe Europe

Security and defence of its citizens are of high importance in the EU. However, any EU security policy must also respect the values on which the EU is based, such as respect for fundamental rights. The EU’s Internal Security Strategy (ISS) for 2010 to 2014 was created to answer those different needs. There have been three reports on its implementation. The last of these, published in 2014, not only evaluates the implementation of the ISS, but identifies possible future challenges to be tackled in the forthcoming internal security strategy for the 2015-20 period.

Written by Martina Prpic.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Council conclusions on Development of a renewed European Union Internal Security Strategy http://www.europeansources.info/record/council-conclusions-on-development-of-a-renewed-european-union-internal-security-strategy/

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