Justice and Home Affairs Council
Agenda Item 1: Instrumentalisation in Migration and Asylum
Agenda Item 2: Combatting Corruption
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Under-Secretary-General: Bora OÄŸuz
Academic Assistant: Ömer Meriç YaÅŸar
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Introduction to the Justice and Home Affairs Council
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The Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) is a configuration of the Council of the European Union. JHA is usually made up of either the Ministers of Justice or the Ministers of Home Affairs of Member States. JHA is tasked with judicial cooperation in civil and criminal law as well as fundamental rights; migration, border management, police cooperation, and further issues that might relate to homeland security. JHA usually meets every three months. In EUROsimA 2025, Ministers will be dealing with two agenda items reflecting the two sides of this configuration’s tasks and obligations.
Introduction to the Agenda Items
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1) In an increasingly destabilised and polarised world, humanitarian crises like migration are under the peril of becoming instruments of international politics. While it is a heartbreaking reality, the EU has to be ready to deal with these issues. This readiness includes two sides, one is during the migration process as part of the prevention efforts, the other one is return or repatriation as a last case solution. The EU aims to achieve this highly political and delicate goal through legislation and preparation with minimum infringement on human rights. As Ministers in EUROsimA 2025, you will be part of this delicate process and will have to make careful considerations in this dichotomy of European Security and Human Rights.
2)Corruption is a multi-level and multifaceted issue, and despite strong international pushback, it still continues to present problems. Firstly, due to its complex and wide-ranging nature, it is hard for entities to pinpoint a certain solution in all its entirety. It is an international issue that not only relates to intra-EU affairs but also to the EU’s relations to the world. In combination with these two issues, there are significant problems in investigating and preventing corruption in a coordinated and whole-scale manner. This situation includes not only legislative holes but also executive inadequacy. In EUROsimA 2025, Ministers will be dealing with this issue through careful deliberation and discourse, within the larger framework of European Union ambitions, goals, politics, and material reality.