(Issue 01/22, also available as a PDF)
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1 February 2019 — Statewatch.org/
Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/jan/email-jan-31.pdf
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STATEWATCH NEWS
9 January 2019 — Statewatch
New EU rules on national identity cards and travel documents will “compel Ireland to introduce fingerprinting” of all holders of the Irish passport card, according to a document circulated by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU (pdf).
3 September 2018 — Statewatch
NEWS
1. Research on the situation at the Spanish Southern Border
2. UK: ICPO inquiry into bulk collection of data
3. Urgent alert – solidarity with the victims of far-right violence in Saxony
4. EU: Council: Informal Ministers defence: Austrian non-paper: Synergies and military support
5. Orbán calls for deportation of migrants, calls Salvini his ‘hero’
6. Activists held in Greece for illegally aiding migrants
7. Netherlands: One in five vulnerable Syrian refugees are rejected by NL because of their views
8. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (28.8.18)
9. Moria, Lesvos, Greece: Children ‘attempting suicide’ at Greek refugee camp
10. Austria rejects Afghan’s asylum request over appearance
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19 September 2017 — Statewatch.org/
Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/sep/email-19-9-17.pdf
ANALYSES, BRIEFING & VIEWPOINT:
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. EU: New report: Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex
2. Analysis: A Pyrrhic victory? The ECJ upholds the EU law on relocation of asylum-seekers
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31 August 2017 — Statewatch
Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex, a new report from Statewatch and the Transnational Institute. Read the report online here.
Press release: Corporations in the driving seat and winning big from EU’s security research agenda
24 July 2017 — Statewatch
In the midst of a refugee crisis perceived as being out of control the EU reached a dodgy deal with Turkey on 18 March 2016 and a few months signed a similar deal with Afghanistan on the return and readmission of refugees. These deals tossed out of the window EU and international laws and rights.
11 July 2017 — Statewatch
SPECIAL: The European Commission asked Italy to draw up a “Code of Conduct” for NGOs carrying out search and rescue in the Mediterranean:
See full-text of:Code of Conduct for NGOs involved in migrant’s rescue operation at sea (pdf)
All NGOs operating in the Med are required to sign and obey the Code:
“Failure to sign this Code of Conduct or failure to comply with its obligations may result in the refusal by the Italian State to authorize the access to national ports, subject to compliance with the existing international conventions.”
14 June 2017 — Statewatch.org/
Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/jun/email-jun-17.pdf
ANALYSIS & VIEWPOINT
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. Counter-terrorism and the inflation of EU databases
2. Who drives EU counter-terrorism?
3. Germany: Almost suspicious: the unbearable lightness of legislation
4. Viewpoint: Egypt: Europe’s other north African border
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25 April 2017 — Statewatch
Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/apr/email-apr.pdf
ANALYSIS & BRIEFING
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. Hindering humanitarianism: Commission not to ensure protection for those supporting sans-papiers
2. UK-EU: Guide to the Brexit Negotiations (EU Law Analysis, link) by Professor Steve Peers:
30 March 2017 — Statewatch
ANALYSIS & BRIEFING
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. Viewpoint: 9th report on relocation and resettlement: Mystification
2. EU: Briefing on cooperation between Frontex, non-EU states and international organisations
27 February 2017 — Statewatch
ANALYSIS & BRIEFING
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. Analysis: Opaque and unaccountable: Frontex Operation Hera
2. EU: Briefing: EU-wide biometric databases, “soft targets”, cybersecurity and data protection: Commission’s 4th report on building the ‘Security Union
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16 February 2017 — Statewatch
Press release
EU border agency targeted “isolated or mistreated” individuals for questioning
Guidelines produced for border guards participating in an EU joint operation instruct the targeting of “migrants from minority ethnic groups, and individuals who may have been isolated or mistreated during their journey, as such people are often more willing to talk about their experiences.” [1]
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30 January 2017 — Statewatch
1. Analysis: EU: Eighth report on relocation and resettlement: Commission welcomes increase in relocations and ignores harmful systematic effects
NEWS
http://www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm
1 USA: Executive Order: Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement
2. EU: PNR: Belgium, France, Netherlands to introduce rail ID checks
3. EU: Re-Build Refuge Europe, a new project to counteract the discourses of crisis
5 January 2016 — http://www.statewatch.org/
ANALYSES, BRIEFING & VIEWPOINT:
1. Eurodac: Member States want wider police access to biometric database despite most never use it
7 November 2016 — Statewatch
NEWS
1. Statewatch Intervention: Unaccompanied child asylum-seekers: European Court of Human Rights
24 October 2016 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
NEWS
1. Statewatch Analysis: Civilizing the torture and execution trade
2. UNHCR: (22.10.16): 319,826 arrivals 2016: 168,873 in Greece, 145,982 in Italy
3. CoE: “Combating anti Gypsyism: calls for better access to social rights and legislative measures
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30 September 2016 — Statewatch
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EU-Afghanistan returns plan: Another “dodgy” deal
13 September 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
25 August 2016 — Communia
By Paul Keller
Well that was quick: just two days after Commissioner Ansip delivered a non-denial denial that “this Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks” Statewatch published a draft of the Commission’s own Impact assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules which clearly states that the Commission will indeed propose the introduction of an EU wide ancillary copyright for news publishers.
The New Dark Age 