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EU-MEXICO PNR: European Commission to open negotiations on PNR agreement
See the full text: Letter from Commissioner to Claude Moraes, Chair LIBE Committee (pdf) And see: Statewatch story filed on 8.3.15: European Commission in a pickle over PNR - Mexico and Argentina about to implement Read More
EU DEFENCE UNION: Yet another elite “Group of Personalities” set up: Bienkowska launches high-level defence research group
"Elzbieta Bienkowska , Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, launched a new high-level group to advise the EU on how it can support research on a future defence union." See the article: Bienkowska Read More
CEUTA-MELILLA: Against a state of exception for human rights in Ceuta and Melilla
"The 150 undersigned social associations have looked into the eyes of these migrants and seen their injuries, traumas and persecutions often, very often. This is why we wont look away and allow our shame for Read More
UK government trying to prevent justice for rendition victims
"The UK government is refusing to guarantee that it will not misuse the intercepted lawyer-client communications of two rendition victims in their legal cases again the British government. Yunus Rahmatullah and Amanatullah Ali, from Pakistan, Read More
Do Facebook and the USA violate EU data protection law? The CJEU hearing in Schrems
See the full text: Do Facebook and the USA violate EU data protection law? The CJEU hearing in Schrems (EU Law Analysis, link) Read More
HUNGARY: Helsinki Committee: Refugees and migrants: Information note on Hungarian government plans to breach EU asylum law and to subject asylum-seekers to massive detention and immediate deportation
"Hungarian Helsinki Committee aimed at providing background information and key facts about migration to *Hungary*, conditions for migrants in the country and recent developments in the government's migration policy. With 42,777 asylum claims registered last Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (2)
This a redraft of important clauses on data subjects' rights and remedies: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Read More
Statewatch Analysis: The EU’s Maternity Leave Directive: The Council secretly rejects the EP’s olive branch
"The Council's refusal to accept the EP's olive branch and even start negotiations on a possible compromise (however unlikely that might be) is petty and vindictive" See the full text: Statewatch Analysis: The EU's Maternity Read More
UK: Student cleared of London terror charge after partially secret trial – Erol Incedal found not guilty of preparation of acts of terrorism after a retrial in which large parts of evidence were heard inside a locked courtroom
"A man who faced accusations that he was plotting to mount an Islamic State-inspired gun or bomb attack on the streets of London has been acquitted after a highly secretive Old Bailey trial. Erol Incedal, Read More
UK-EU: House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union report
See the full text: The Review of the Balance of Competences between the UK and the EU (pdf) and Evidence submitted (pdf) in respone to: Government Review (link): "Although the reports represent a significant and Read More