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EU-MED-CRISIS (31.07.2015)
- Asylum seeker death toll rising (IRR, link): "In the last two months, at least thirteen people, two of whom were teenagers, have died trying to reach the UK, and countless others have been injured." Read More
EU: Statewatch Analysis: EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs cooperation: an honest and equal relationship?
Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments: “The USA role in justice and home affairs is like that of the 29th EU state. Year after year since 2001 there have been regular meetings of Ministers and Senior Read More
Burgenland’s ‘red-blue’ coalition of shame
"The Labour Party is debating how to win back votes from UKIP. Meanwhile, in Austria, the Burgenland Social Democrats have set a worrying precedent, entering into a coalition with the extreme Right in the provincial Read More
USA: Government Accountability Office (GAO): Facial Recognition Technology: Commercial Uses, Privacy Issues, and Applicable Federal Law
"No federal privacy law expressly regulates commercial uses of facial recognition technology, and laws do not fully address key privacy issues stakeholders have raised, such as the circumstances under which the technology may be used Read More
EU-USA: Full-text of draft:Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
"This document is the European Union's proposal for services, investment and e-commerce text. It was tabled for discussion with the US in the negotiating round of 12 -17 July 2015 and made public on 31 Read More
GERMANY: UPDATED: 31.7.15: Germany halts treason inquiry into journalists after protests
See the article: Germany halts treason inquiry into journalists after protests - ‘For the good of media freedom’, Germany’s prosecutor general suspends investigation into reporters who said state planned to boost surveillance (Guardian, link) Statewatch Read More
EU: Smart borders: European Commission and Member States at odds over digitising passport stamps
The EU wants to replace ink-on-paper passport stamps with a digital alternative as part of its plans for an Entry/Exit System supposed to detect visa "overstayers". Member States are not convinced by the idea. A Read More
EU: Statewatch Briefing: Preparing the ground for “smart borders”: EU action on “overstayers
"Quiet preparations for the EU’s ambitious “smart borders” proposals are ongoing. This will require the fingerprinting of all non-EU residents entering the Schengen area, and is made up proposals for an Entry/Exit System intended to Read More
EU: MED-CRISIS: WHERE IS THE EU GOING?
"Some 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais on Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel has said." See the article: Channel Tunnel: '2,000 migrants' tried to Read More
SPAIN: Statewatch Analysis: ECtHR: Spain guilty of not investigating allegations of torture in incommunicado detention by Yasha Maccanico
"On 5 May 2015, the third section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg unanimously found Spain guilty of violating the procedural aspects of article 3 of the European Convention on Human Read More