Safety has become the favourite theme of politicians and the media. In its name and because of supposed threats, policies and practices that have an important impact on our freedoms and our daily lives are put into place. The development of control and surveillance should, according to some, help pacify our society, but according to others, it risks making it passive.

With: Didier Bigo (Speaker at Sciences-Po Paris, Editor-in-chief of Cultures & Conflits, author of Polices en réseaux: l’experience européenne (Polices in networks: the European experience), Press de Sc Po, Paris, 1996), Elspeth Guild (researcher and professor of European Migration Law), David Dalla Vecchia (General Manager of the company RFIDEA: Engineering & Applications in electronic traceability), Anastassia Tsoukala (Associate Professor at the Université Paris XI, she works on the European safety policies and social construction of threat).

Moderation: Régis De Rath (RTBF)



See also film "Every step you take"