Statewatch today launches a unique online archive of over 4,500 official documents (rising to over 6,500 by the end of 2012) that chart the development of EU justice and home affairs policy over three decades.
30 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: Statewatch Analysis: “Network with errors”: Europe’s emerging web of DNA databases
2. UK: Statewatch Analysis: Review of counter-terrorism powers fails to deliver definitive change
3. ECHR-UK: JUDGMENT: UK would violate human rights of two Somali nationals if it returned them to Mogadishu
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28 February, 2011 — Statewatch
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1. EU-USA SWIFT DEAL: MEP Swift ‘secrecy’ may hamper new data deals with US
2. EU-COE-ECHR: Draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the Convention
3. EU: Council of the European Union: Justice and Home Affairs Council, Press release
4. EU: BODY SCANNERS: Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee
5. EU: BODY SCANNERS: European Parliament: Highly critical: Draft Opinion
6. EU: INTERNAL SECURITY: European Parliament: Working documents
7. UK: Home Office: Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000
8. EU: European Commission Communication: Evaluation of EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs)
9. EU/Africa: Migreurop statement on the EU’s migration policy as supportive of dictatorships
10. EU: Council of the European Union: Council conclusions: A comprehensive approach on personal data protection
11. EU: MEPs question ‘Big Brother’ urban observation project
12. EU: Confusion over new comitology rules coming into force on 1 March
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1. UK: Student protests
2. Council of Europe: The role of judges in the enforcement of judicial decisions
3. EU: ECCHR: Report: Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, preemptive security and fundamental rights
4. EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS REGULATION: European Court of Justice: Case
5. France: Statement by Collectif Liberté Egalité Justice : LOPPSI 2: not in our name!
6. EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION
7. EU: Joint Letter: NGOs’ perspective on the EU accession to the ECHR
8. EU: Fundamental Rights Agency: proposal would extend the remit to cover polcing and criminal law
9. EU: European Parliament: Question: “Radicalisation” and data collection
10. EU: Issuing visas: Lists of the authorities
11. UK: PEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN: Kurdish community leaders questioned by MI5 officers
12. EU Fundamental Rights Agency reports: Separated, asylum-seeking children
13. UK: Citizens Advice Bureau report: Uncivil Recovery
14. EU: Statewatch Analysis: Extending EU long-term resident status to refugees and persons with subsidiary protection status
15. Norway/Italy: Wholesale seizure of activist e-communications service provider’s data
16. EU: Statewatch Analysis: The new Directive on trafficking in persons
17. EU: Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA Council)
18. IRAQ-USA-GAO REPORT: Displaced Iraqis
19. EU: EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER (EIO): Statewatch Analysis
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1. LIBYA-UNHCR: Migreurop statement: the bid is rising, migrants pay the price
2. EU-TRAFFICKING: Council: Latest draft: preventing and combating trafficking in human beings
3. UK: Stop and search used illegally against thousands
4. EU: UK monitors suspected radicals as part of European surveillance project
5. UN: BC Civil Liberties Association/ICLMG: Rights groups challenge United Nations blacklist in court
6. USA: Physicians for Human Rights: Experiments in torture: ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program
7. EU: Eurodac Supervision Coordination Group (EDPS): Coordinated Supervision of Eurodac: Activity Report
8. EU: Commission: Annual Report 2009: On Relations between the Commission and National Parliaments
9. EU: Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) report: Becoming vulnerable in Europe
10. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 3-4 June 2010
11. EU: Commission: “Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme”
12. UK: Statewatch: UK Government’s “clumsy, indiscriminate and disproportionate” approach to DNA retention
13. Italy: Statewatch analysis: Shocking death spotlights prisoners’ plight
14. EU: EU-US and Member States 2010 Declaration on Counterterrorism
15. UK: Statewatch: Shock and anger at the violent policing tactics used at the G8 Summit
16. Italy: Statewatch: The internal and external fronts: security package and returns to Libya
17. Germany: Statewatch: Federal Republic’s security services from the Cold War to the “new security architecture”
18. EU: Musical chairs in Brussels
19. Slovakia/Algeria: Expulsion contravenes ECtHR orders
20. UK: Bill to abolish ID cards published: Identity Documents Bill
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1. DUTCH PRISON FOR BELGIANS: Under the European Arrest Warrant
2. EU: “Fishing expeditions” for fingerprints leads to limits being imposed
3. EU Security Research: “NeoConOpticon” blog updated
4. UK: Joint Human Rights Committee: Annual Renewal of Control Orders
5. France/Algeria: Joint maritime surveillance and security operation
6. EU: European Commission proposal to amend the Frontex Regulation
7. France/Italy: “One day without us”, day of struggle in support of migrants’
8. EU: Directive on single permit and workers’ rights
9. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting, Brussels, 25-26 February 2010
10. CHIP & PIN: Article
11. UK: Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000
12. EU: The first 1st reading “deal” of the new parliamentary session
13. Council of Europe: The future of the European Court of Human Rights
14. EU: FRONTEX: Frontex Programme of Work 2010
15. EU: Leaked ACTA draft reveals plans for internet clampdown
16. CIA RENDITION: Poland: fresh evidence of cooperation
17. EU setting up intelligence “agency”
18. USA: GOOGLE: EPIC urges Court to reject Goggle Books settlement
19. EU AGENCIES: the heads of the 28 EU agencies met with the Commission
20. USA-NO FLY LIST: Terrorists, US Immigration, and a Canceled Tour
21. EU: European Commission: Implementation of Article 290 of the Treaty
22. EU: European Commission proposal on aviation security
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