Towards a New Conception of European Security
Luis Ortega
Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha
This paper proposes a concept of integral European security that shows its juridical, institutional and functional complexity, and requires to act on the institutional framework, which appears too formal and compartmentalised; to prevent that the Europeanisation of the security area does not attenuate the requirements of civil guarantees that correspond with the rules of the concept of the constitutional State that presides at the European legal system and at its Member States; and to achieve a regulation, partly common, for all the implied actors, since the ambivalence of the instruments that can act separated or together in an integral security policy (armed forces, intelligence services, security police, frontiers police, judiciary, civil, environmental or sanitary defence), presents an excessively differentiated juridical regime, regarding especially the existing prerogatives of public law in the legal system to legitimise its action.
