Special issue: Foreign terrorist fighters: Enhancing the synergies between the EU’s internal and external strategies
| Published date | 01 June 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20322844231178954 |
| Author | Ali Bounjoua |
| Date | 01 June 2023 |
Introduction
New Journal of European Criminal Law
2023, Vol. 14(2) 125–137
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Special issue: Foreign terrorist
fighters: Enhancing the
synergies between the EU’s
internal and external strategies
Ali Bounjoua
Universit´
e libre de Bruxelles (ULB - Institute for European Studies), Belgium
Abstract
This introduction aims to serve as a reminder of the main steps in the EU’sgrowingin-
volvement in the topic, showing that there has been a gradual impact on both the EU’s
internal and external policies. It also aims to highlight, in particular, two grey areas in law
that have an impact on EU policy in the field. On the one hand, a clear and precise definition
of the concept of FTF in international law and European law is missing. This absence blurs
the line between FTFs and broader or related concepts, such as foreign fighters. It goes
without saying that these two questions are particularly acute in the current context of the
war in Ukraine and in the context of a growing involvement of the EU institutions in the field
of core international crimes and international criminal justice. To conclude, the structure of
the special issue entitled “Foreign terrorist fighters: Enhancing the synergies between the
EU’s internal and external strategies”will be presented.
Keywords
Foreign Terrorist Fighters, EU Judicial Cooperation, UN Security Council, EU’s External Security,
EU’s Counter-Terrorism, EU’s Internal Security
Corresponding author:
Ali Bounjoua, Centre de droit europ´
een, Universit´
e libre de Bruxelles (ULB - Institute for European Studies), Av. Franklin
Roosevelt 39, Brussels 1050, Belgium.
Email: Ali.Bounjoua@ulb.be
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