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UK: Government responses to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union’s reports

Government responses(pdf) This includes 5th Report: Fighting Illegal Immigration: Should Carriers Carry the Burden? 6th Report: Future role of the European Court of Justice (pdf), 11th Report: Handling EU Asylum Claims: New Approaches Examined (pdf) Read More

News in Brief; UN finds bugging device at Geneva headquarters

UN finds bugging device at Geneva headquarters (link) More on UN bug from Cryptome (link) Read More

EU: JHA Council, 2 December 2004

Conclusions of "best practices" for voluntary or forced "return of refugees" (agreed but not in press release below) Read More

UE: Green Paper from the European Commission on managing economic migration

An EU approach to managing economic migration (link) Read More

News in Brief; Liberty: ID Card Bill – 2nd Reading Briefing

Terrorism, anti-terrorism and people’s response

The "war on terror" as a "war on freedom and democracy": speech by Ben Hayes (Statewatch) at the Asia-Europe People's Forum (ASEM V, 7.9.04), Hanoi, Vietnam Read More

UK: Secretary General of the Council of Europe, calls for immediate repeal of UK anti-terror law

Strasbourg, 22.12.2004 - "The anti-terrorism legislation in the United Kingdom must be changed as a matter of urgency. We will not win the fight against terrorism if we undermine the foundations of our democratic societies," Read More

UK: Fairford coach protestors “virtually prisoners” rules Court of Appeal

Press release (link) Read More

EU: Council adopts Decision on the transition to qualified majority voting and codecision procedure

EU: At the Agriculture and Fisheries Council today (22.12.04) in Brussels the Council adopted a Decision on the transition to qualified majority voting and codecision procedure for certain areas covered by Title IV of Part Read More

EU: Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection proposes harmonised information standards to correct major divergencies in national laws

Proposal (pdf) a. Appendix 1 (short notice) b. Appendix 2 (condensed notice) c. Appendix 3 (notice for air travellers) 1) First Commisssion report on the working of the 1995 Directive (pdf) and Technical Analysis (pdf) Read More