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EU: Implementation of Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA
Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA of 24 July 2008 on taking account of convictions in the Member States of the European Union in the course of new criminal proceedings (14292/1/12, pdf) Read More
SPAIN: Madrid Protests: Police Admit ‘Secret’ Agents But Deny Provocation
"Spain's National Police Headquarters admitted on Wednesday that a number of secret agents infiltrated Tuesday's protests against the conservative government, according to El Huffington Post, though police denied social media rumors that secret agents had Read More
EU: European Arrest Warrant statistics
Replies to questionnaire on quantitative information on the practical operation of the European arrest warrant – Year 2011 (9200/6/12, pdf) Read More
EU: FRONTEX Fundamental Rights Strategy: Statewatch and Migreurop’s joint submission to the Ombudsman of the European Union
Submission in: - English (pdf) - French (pdf) “Frontex has adopted a restrictive approach to the human rights impact of its activities, and put forward a strategy where preventive mechanisms remain weak and where redress Read More
UK-USA: Extradition of terrorist suspects after years of legal battles
Why we in the UK shouldn’t celebrate these extraditions (openDemocracy, link) by Ben Hayes UK-USA: Abu Hamza loses fight against extradition to the US - Major terror suspects may be moved in days as European Read More
UPDATE: European Court of Justice: Minimum conditions for the reception of asylum seekers the reception of asylum seekers
The minimum conditions for the reception of asylum seekers must be granted by the Member State in receipt of an application for asylum even when it calls upon another Member State which it considers to Read More
UK: More than £2 billion spent on drones
UK: Britain's military drones spending tops £2bn - UK spent £2bn on developing military drones in the past five years and is poised to commit an extra £2bn, claims report (Guardian, link) See report: Shelling Read More
SPAIN: Violence at anti-austery protests
Police Brutality Turns Streets of Madrid Into War Zone (Occupy, link) and Popular discontent boils in Spain (euractiv, link) Read More
GERMANY: Border control and deportation operations to Belarus
26.9.12 - The German magazine Junge Welt published on 30 August 2012 an article which looks at cooperation between the German police (Bundespolizei) and Belarus in border control and return of irregular migrants. [1] German Read More
Common European Asylum System: LIBE Committee adopts Reception Directive and the Dublin III Regulation
26.9.12 As the deadline set for the adoption of a Common European Asylum Office is approaching (end of 2012), negotiations have reached the final stage of the "trilogue" between the Council and the European Parliament. Read More