Ben Hayes, Interviewer: Nick Buxton
The EU approach to security is starting to eclipse the rule of law, with very little consideration of human rights.
What is the history of the European Union’s security strategy?
Security is one of the newest areas for the EU, as it didn’t have an overarching security policy until 2003. The strategy it adopted is called “A Secure Europe in a Better World”. It argued that Europe needed to change its way of looking at security. It needed to move from a traditional framework of looking at defence from attack that came from the time of the Cold War to being able to take on a whole new range of threats from organised crime to terrorism to uncontrolled migration. (more on tni.org)
