@article{2016:oberloskamp:the_europe,
title = {The European TREVI Conference in the 1970s: Transgovernmental Policy Coordination in the Area of Internal Security},
year = {2016},
note = {Against the background of terrorist threats, but also in the light of
European integra­tion objectives, the nine EC member states began
during the 1970s to align policies in the area of internal security.
The principal forum for this was the so-called TREVI conference - an
intergovernmental form of cooperation that largely took place behind
closed doors, hidden from the view of the general public. Its key
objective was to provide a framework for the systematic cooperation of
police forces and security agencies within the EC. The paper analyses
how the early TREVI conference func­tioned. It concludes that the
conference’s work was significantly shaped by trans­governmental
coordination mechanisms and that ministerial and security officials
gained a pronounced influence on agenda-setting and decision-making
processes. This underlying momentum was particularly problematic with
regard to the demo­cratic accountability of the conference.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {29--46},
author = {OBERLOSKAMP, Eva},
volume = {22},
number = {1}
}