Differentiation in Justice and Home Affairs

Abstract

The area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) is one of the policy areas of the European Union that has seen the most differentiation, both within and outside the framework of EU membership. The area covers what is usually considered core state powers, such as law and order, and migration policies, and is therefore closely linked to questions of national sovereignty. Moreover, some of the most salient and controversial issues in recent years fall under this area – immigration, border controls and security. The panel brings together papers that look at differentiation in the area of JHA from various theoretical perspectives and with different cases, but all contributing to our knowledge on how differentiation in this area develops and why. Whereas one paper considers the participation of third countries in EU JHA agencies, the other two papers investigate two countries that have a long tradition of opt-outs from EU JHA – the United Kingdom and Denmark.

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External differentiated integration in EU Justice and Home Affairs Agencies: Extended or external governance?	View Paper Details
Opting out from what? Discourses on migration in the Danish referendum on the Justice and Home Affairs opt-out in 2015	View Paper Details
The establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office – A new Variation of Differentiated Integration and Multilevel Governance	View Paper Details
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs: a historical institutionalist analysis of policy trajectories	View Paper Details