Archive
Vol 12(6): November-December 2002
Cover story: EU: Mandatory data retention by the
backdoor: The majority of member states are adopting mandatory data retention and favour an EU-wide measure Read More
Statewatch Submission: Supplementary Agreement between Europol and United States
(Council docs. 13689/02; 13689/02 add 1; and 13996/02) Read More
Statewatch submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union: Revised Proposal on asylum procedures (COM(2002) 326)
1. Statewatch welcomes the chance to comment on this revised version of the proposed directive on asylum procedures. In general, the revision is a highly disappointing attempt to restrict the procedural rights of asylum-seekers which Read More
Vol 12(5): August-October 2002
Cover story: "Safe and dignified", voluntary or "forced"
repatriation to "safe" third countries - coupled with trade and aid sanctions against countries who are “uncooperative” Read More
Statewatch submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union: The EU Charter of Rights
The Charter should become part of the treaties, subject to a number of important clarifications made to its horizontal provisions as regards competence, limitation clauses, and rights other than those based on the EC/EU Treaties and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The European Union should also be granted competence to accede to the ECHR. Read More
Statewatch submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union, Sub-Committee F: Proposals to amend the Europol Convention
ntroduction 1. Statewatch welcomes the opportunity to comment on the recent Danish Presidency proposal for a Protocol to the Europol Convention (EU Council doc. 10307/02, 2.7.02; see also the "correction of errors" in that document, Read More
“Arbitrary” EU anti-terrorist laws tested by Swedish Young Left (1)
Ung Vänster, the youth organisation of the Swedish left party (1), has made a donation to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in order to challenge its inclusion on the EU's proscribed Read More
Informal JHA Council, 13-14 September, Copenhagen
Danish EU Presidency press release: Informal Meeting of the Ministers in the area of Justice and Home Affairs, 13 – 14 September 2002 Read More
EU announces first lists of terrorists and all refugees to be vetted
- All refugees to be vetted for any connection with "terrorism" - Four measures by-pass any democratic accountability - Application of measures not legally accountable - Measures adopted by "written procedure" [View this this report Read More
Vol 12(3/4): May-July 2002
Cover story: Surveillance of telecommunications: Data retention to be "compulsory" Read More