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Briefing document: Commissioner Ylva Johansson Mission to Niger, 13-15 February 2022
Heavily censored. Read More
DDG Luchner mission to Niger, 11-12 April 2022: briefing document
A briefing document prepared for Deputy Director General of DG HOME, Johannes Luchner, prior to a "mission" to Niger on 11-12 April 2022. Read More
EU: Council establishes new working party on defence industry as part of military push
On 29 June, member state ambassadors to the EU agreed to create an 'Ad hoc Working Party on defence industry'. This Working Party will report to the EU Foreign Affairs Council, providing advice on draft legislative acts and other legal acts on issues related to the European defence industrial and technological base (EDTIB) – that is, the military industry at large. Read More
EU: Police plans for the “future of travel” are for “a future with even more surveillance”
Plans hatched by Europol and Frontex to develop a “European System for Traveller Screening” that would require massive data processing and automated profiling have been condemned as ushering in “a future with even more surveillance” by German left MEP Cornelia Ernst, who told Statewatch that “the daily lives of millions of people” should not be shaped by “agencies that long ceased to be controllable by the public and the parliament.” Read More
USA: Attorneys and journalists illegally searched during visits with Julian Assange sue CIA and Michael Pompeo
Plaintiffs call on DOJ to drop charges; Members of legal team were illegally surveilled inside Ecuadorian embassy, violating fourth amendment. Indictment against Julian Assange cannot stand as a result of gross government misconduct. Read More
Frontex celebrates “expanding footprint” beyond the EU in report on third country cooperation
EU border agency Frontex is obliged to report annually to the European Parliament, European Commission and Council of the EU on its cooperation with non-EU countries. The 2021 report, obtained by Statewatch and published here, focuses on an expanding influence in the Western Balkans, information sharing, the expansion of the European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR) to non-EU states, and deportations. Read More
Response from the security ministry and service for foreigners to an FOI request
A response from Bosnian state institutions to an FOI request concerning identification and deportation. Read More
Italy: Migration, borders and freedom of information: decree aims to “nullify any glimmer of transparency”
The decree, approved quietly in March, provides a blueprint for official opacity – vast swathes of documents are now deemed “inaccessible”. Read More
UK: New campaign to keep Campsfield immigration detention centre closed
In 2019, Campsfield detention centre near Oxford was closed following the publication of a government review on the treatment of vulnerable people in immigration detention. Local campaigners had staunchly opposed the centre for years. Now, the government intends to reopen it and house up to 400 men there, pending deportation - possibly to Rwanda. A new campaign aims to halt the plans. Read More
Minutes of the EU-USA justice and home affairs ministerial meeting
The meeting was held in Paris on 23 June 2022. Cybercrime, ransomware, child sexual abuse, environmental crime and judicial cooperation were all discussed under the heading of "prospects for strengthening transatlantic coooperation". Read More