Statewatch
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Statewatch News Online, 14 September 2016 (16/16)
13 September 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/sep/e-mail-gen-14-sep.pdf NEWS 1. ECRE-AIDA: Report: Admissibility, responsibility and safety in European asylum procedures 2. UK: Downing Street ‘used police and courts to smear Orgreave miners’ 3. European Parliament: Implementation of Lisbon Treaty – Improving Functioning of Foreign Affairs Continue reading
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EU Commission: Yes, we will create new ancillary copyright for news publishers, but please stop calling it a “link tax”
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… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 August 2016 (15/16)
30 August 2016 — Statewatch.org/ office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/aug/e-mail-gen-30-aug.pdf NEWS 1. EU Commission: Copyright reform proposals: Leaked internal Impact Assessment (IA) 2. Statewatch Analysis: The visible hand: The EU’s Security Industrial Policy 3. Refugees: New routes to reach Spain lead to more deaths at sea 4. EU: Common list Continue reading
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Statewatch analysis: The visible hand: The EU’s Security Industrial Policy
The EU’s initiatives in security are wide-ranging, but they frequently dovetail with the interests of major security and defence companies: tools for mass data-gathering and predictive analytics, continent-wide surveillance systems and databases, the increasing use of biometrics in all walks of life, and the closer integration of public authorities and private industry. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 August 2016 (13/16)
15 August 2016 — Statewatch.org • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/aug/e-mail-gen-15-aug.pdf NEWS 1. EU: Analysis: A missed opportunity to open up secret trilogue decision-making in the EU 2. EU: External migration projects: Council to approve auditors’ recommendations 3. French interior minister wants global effort against encryption 4. HUNGARY-ECHR: Anti-Roma racism, hyperlinks Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 July 2016 (12/16)
28 July 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jul/e-mail-gen-july.pdf NEWS 1. Council: Exit-Entry, Discrimination, Equal treatment, Maritime Security and Banned exports 2. Greece: GISTI report on Greek hotspots in Lesbos and Chios after the EU/Turkey deal 3. UK: Growing calls to extend undercover policing inquiry remit beyond England and Continue reading
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Statewatch: 3 June 2016 : STATEWATCHING EUROPE
3 June 2016 — Statewatch • E-mail: office@statewatch.org European conference marking Statewatch’s anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 09.45 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016 Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 ( map) For 25 years Statewatch has been working to publish and promote investigative journalism and critical Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 May 2016 (10/16)
27 May 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/may/e-mail-gen-27-may.pdf European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016 Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 Workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 May 2016 (08/16)
9 May 2016 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/may/e-mail-gen-9-5-16.pdf European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016, London BOOK NOW Continue reading
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Statewatch: Greece: NGO/volunteers helping refugees to be placed under state control (05/16)
22 February 2016 — Statewatch Statewatch monitoring the state and civil liberties: 8 February 2016 (05/16) NGOs and volunteers helping refugees in Greece to be placed under state control: View as pdf: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/feb/greece-state-control-ngos.pdf – only in the Soviet Union and under the STASI in East Germany were NGOs expected to hand over lists and personal Continue reading
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Statewatch: Looking for a new home: 7,000 JHA documents (04/16)
Our archive of 7,000+ paper documents on EU justice and home affairs policy needs a new home. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 1 February 2016 (03/16): Refugees: EU plans to criminalise volunteers – in Greece NGOs and volunteers have to “register” with the police
1 February 2016 — Statewatch Statewatch News Online, 1 February 2016 (03/16) Web link to this story: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/eu-med-crisis-criminalising-civil-society.htm Refugee crisis: Council proposals on migrant smuggling would criminalise humanitarian assistance by civil society, local people and volunteers and in Greece: NGOs and volunteers have to “register” with the police and be vetted Continue reading
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Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 25 January 2016 (02/16)
25 January 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 25 January 2016 (02/16) See Contents list below or Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/e-mail-refugees-25-1-16.pdf See: Observatory: EU refugee crisis – a humanitarian emergency See also regularly updated: European Commission: “State of Play”: Refugee crisis: Statistics: Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 January 2016 (01/16
18 January 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/email-18-1-16.pdf NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ Statewatch – with links to 12 free resources and databases Continue reading
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Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 8 December 2015 (27/15)
8 December 2015 — Statewatch Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 8 December 2015 (27/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org See Contents list below and Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/email-8-12-15-refugees.pdf Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 7 December 2015 (26/15)
7 December 2015 — Statewatch.org Statewatch News Online, 7 December 2015 (26/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/email-7-12-15.pdf Continue reading
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Statewatch 24 November 2015: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU (25/15)
24 November 2015 — Statewatch Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 24 November 2015 (25/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org See Contents list below and Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/nov/eu-med-docs.pdf New key documents and decision-making by Council of the European Union, European Commission and Agencies plus Commentaries (in chronological order) Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 November 2015 (24/15)
17 November 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/nov/news-online-17-nov.pdf NEWS: http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. CoE: Commissioner Mui nieks intervenes in ECHR on migration cases concerning 2. EP study: Implementation Lisbon Treaty: Improving Functioning of EU: Foreign Affairs 3. EU: CJEU Judgment: Commission right to refuse access to documents Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 October 2015 (23/15): NSA & Europe / Mass Surveillance…
21 October 2015— http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/oct/e-mail-21-10-15.pdf Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 24 September 2015 (22/15): Council challenges EU Ombudsman secret trilogues Inquiry (22/15)
“Over 80% of all new EU laws are agreed in these secret trilogues – they should have no place in a democracy worthy of the name – they should be held in the open with full public access to documents so that we can see what is being decided in our name.” Continue reading
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