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in the European Union

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 New - Statewatch News online

Statewatch News Online reports on civil liberties issues. It contains news and in-depth features with links to background information. It is updated regularly, latest coverage includes:

• International Federation of Journalists: "Journalists Condemn "Summertime Coup"
  As NATO Declares War on Open Government"
• Report on Mutual Assistance in criminal matters
• Solana plans for the security state and an end to EU openness agreed: the EU governments agreed (Wednesday 26 July) to replace existing code of access to documents with a new highly restricted code which will herald the end of openness
• French Presidency's attack on "illegal" entry and residence, carriers sanctions and expulsion
• Europol adopts the Council's code of access to documents after inquiry by European Ombudsman
• Statewatch takes two complaints against EU over access to documents to Ombudsman
• Lome Convention used to impose repatriation on the world's poorest countries
• Patten's radical model of policing is emasculated in Police (Northern Ireland) Bill
• EU: Mutual recognition of criminal judgments threatens rights of suspects and defendants
• UK: Proposed R.I.P. Bill extends state surveillance
• EU: Europol given go-ahead to exchange data with non-EU states and agencies

Statewatch News online: full index

Extensive news features:

• Secret Europe on public access to EU documents
• EU-FBI telecommunications surveillance system Updated 17 July 2000

Statewatch database

The database contains over 25,000 entries, with news, features, books, pamphlets and reports on the state, civil liberties and justice and home affairs in the UK and the European Union. This free access database is an archive of Statewatch's work since 1991. The contents of our regular subscriber bulletin, published 6 times a year, are not put on the database until a year after publication. To subscribe to the bulletin or to request a free sample copy, click Free sample issue/subscribe

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New pamphlet: "On Globalisation of Control: Towards an Integrated Surveillance System in Europe" by Thomas Mathiesen. Analyses EU databases, use and exchange of data and surveillance - this publication complements critiques of globalisation/globalism by looking at the potential of a "global state" Place order

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Statewatch bulletin, current issue, vol 10 no 2 (March-May 2000) Contents

Statewatch European Monitor - new issue, vol 2 no 1  Contents

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