Informal Meeting of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs, Dresden, 14-16 January 2007

The discussions in Dresden focused on strengthening cross-border police cooperation by transposing the Prüm Treaty into EU law, on the future of judicial cooperation in family law and law of inheritance, as well as on the cross-border use of information technology by judicial authorities. Another topic will be the planned common European strategy to fight illegal migration by strengthening border police cooperation and initiating a dialogue with the countries of origin as equal partners.