Amsterdam et Tampere: les ressortissants extra-communautaires et l'Union européenne

The status of immigrants in the EU is updated. The 2000 Amsterdam Treaty transfers authority over immigration and asylum from the EU's intergovernmental pillar to its community pillar with the aim of maximizing human rights and free movement in Europe. Implications of the triangular relationship among immigrant, European Community, and member States are explored. Entailments of free movement are explained. The development of coordinated immigration rights is traced in a series of European accords ; some nations' visa and border control rules have prevented an integrated policy within the EU. A limitation of the individual States' discretionary control over immigration is supported. The European Community's moral obligations to immigrants are sketched ; human rights in a Europe without internal borders demand that the states transfer immigration and visa powers to the community