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Statewatch began publishing stand-alone reports and books in 1993, with the publication of Statewatching the new Europe: a handbook on the European state. Our most recent publications are:
- Access denied: Secrecy and the externalisation of EU migration control
- Frontex and interoperable databases: knowledge as power?
- Empowering the police, removing protections: the new Europol Regulation
Here you can also browse the archives of the Statewatch Bulletin (1993-2013) and Statewatch Journal (2013-14) and view videos and other material from our events.
Publications
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Reports and books
- ByLock Prosecutions and the Right to Fair Trial in Turkey: The ECtHR Grand Chamber’s Ruling in Yüksel Yalçınkaya v. Türkiye
- Telling the story of EU border militarization
- Frontex and interoperable databases: knowledge as power?
- Europe's techno-borders
- Empowering the police, removing protections: the new Europol Regulation
- Access denied: Secrecy and the externalisation of EU migration control
- Secrecy and Openness in the European Union
- The activities and development of Europol - towards an unaccountable "FBI" in Europe
- On Globalisation of Control: Towards an Integrated Surveillance System in Europe
- Key texts on justice and home affairs, 1976-1993
- Crimes of Arrival
- Researching the European state: a critical guide
- The Europol Convention
- Statewatching the new Europe: a handbook on the European state
- The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain
- Eurodrones, Inc.
- The Atlas of Migration in Europe
- Counter-terrorism, 'policy laundering' and the FATF: legalising surveillance, regulating civil society
- NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex
- The Shape of Things to Come
- Border Wars and Asylum Crimes
- The War on Freedom and Democracy
- Arming Big Brother: the EU's Security Research Programme
- Countering Civil Rights
- Journalism, Civil Liberties and the "War on Terrorism"
- Data Protection in the Police Sector in Europe: a Failure to Regulate
- Algorithmic persecution in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown: The FETÖ-Meter system
- Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU's push to increase forced removals
- Automated suspicion: The EU's new travel surveillance initiatives
- Data Protection, Immigration Enforcement and Fundamental Rights: What the EU’s Regulations on Interoperability Mean for People with Irregular Status
- Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex
- Back from the battlefield: domestic drones in the UK
- A clear and present danger: Missing safeguards on migration and asylum in the EU’s AI Act
- At what cost? Funding the EU’s security, defence, and border policies, 2021–2027
- Building the biometric state: Police powers and discrimination
- Brexit: Goodbye and hello – the new EU-UK security architecture, civil liberties and democratic control
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Journal
- Essay collection: The EU and Uncle Sam
- Vol 8 (5): September-October 1998
- Vol 17(2): April-July 2007
- Vol 17 (3/4): October 2007: EU Reform treaty: Cementing the European state; UK: Protestors defy ban to march for troop withdrawal in Iraq; Germany: Prosecution ends investigation of"rendition" journalists
- Vol 20 (3/4): Time to rethink terrorist blacklisting; EU democratic deficit; "preventative" public order arrests
- Vol 21 (4): EU-US cybersecurity cooperation; German state trojans; forced returns monitoring
- Vol 23(2): Informants, spies and subversion
- Vol 1 (1): March-April 1991
- Vol 1 (2): May-June 1991
- Vol 1(3): July-August 1991
- Vol 1(4): September-October 1991
- Vol 1(5): November-December 1991
- Vol 2(1): January-February 1992
- Vol 2(2): March-April 1992
- Vol 2(3): May-June 1992
- Vol 2(4): July-August 1992
- Vol 2(5): September-October 1992
- Vol 2(6): November-December 1992
- Vol 3(2): March-April 1993
- Vol 3(3): May-June 1993
- Vol 3(4): July-August 1993
- Vol 3(5): September-October 1993
- Vol 3(6): November-December 1993
- Vol 4(2): March-April 1994
- Vol 4(1): January-February 1994
- Vol 4(3): May-June 1994
- Vol 4(4): July-August 1994
- Vol 4(5): September-October 1994
- Vol 4(6): November-December 1994
- Vol 5(2): March-April 1995
- Vol 5(3): May-June 1995
- Vol 5(4): July-August 1995
- Vol 5(5): September-October 1995
- Vol 5(6): November-December 1995
- Vol 7 (6): November-December 1997
- Vol 23(1): Austerity, democracy and civil liberties
- Vol 23(3/4): Borders, deaths and resistance
- Vol 3(1): January-February 1993
- Vol 5(1): January-February 1995
- Vol 3 (1993)
- Vol 2 (1992)
- Vol 1 (1991)
- Vol 7 (1): January-February 1997
- Vol 6(6): November-December 1996
- Vol 6(5): September-October 1996
- Vol6(4): July-August 1996
- Vol 6(3): May-June 1996
- Vol 6(2): March-April 1996
- Vol 6(1): January-February 1996
- Vol 5 (1995)
- Vol 4 (1994)
- Vol 8 (3&4): May-August 1998
- Vol 8 (2): March-April 1998
- Vol 8 (1): January-February 1998
- Vol 7 (4&5): July-October 1997
- Vol 7 (3): May-June 1997
- Vol 7 (2): March-April 1997
- Vol 10(3/4): June-August 2000
- Vol 10(1): January-February 2000
- Vol 9 (6): November-December 1999
- Vol 9 (5): September-October 1999
- Vol 9 (3/4): May-August 1999
- Vol 9 (2): March-April 1999
- Vol 9 (1): January-February 1999
- Vol 8 (6): November-December 1998
- Vol 12(5): August-October 2002
- Vol 12(3/4): May-July 2002
- Vol 12(2): March-April 2002
- Vol 12(1): January-February 2002
- Vol 11(6): November-December 2001
- Vol 11(5): August-October 2001
- Vol 11(3/4): May-July 2001
- Vol 11(2): March-April 2001
- Vol 11(1): January-February 2001
- Vol 10(6): November-December 2000
- Vol 10(5): September-October 2000
- Vol 13(6): November-December 2003
- Vol 13(5): August-October 2003
- Vol 13(3/4): May-July 2003
- Vol 13(2): March-April 2003
- Vol 13(1): January-February 2003
- Vol 12(6): November-December 2002
- Vol 14(5): August-October 2004
- Vol 14 (3/4): May-July 2004
- Vol 14(2): March-April 2004
- Vol 14(1): January-February 2004
- Vol 16(2): March-April 2006
- Vol 16(1): January-February 2006
- Vol 15(6): November-December 2005
- Vol 15(5): September-October 2005
- Vol 15(3/4): May-August 2005
- Vol 15(2): March-April 2005
- Vol 15(1): January-February 2005
- Vol 14(6): November-December 2004
- Vol 16(5/6): August-December 2006
- Vol 16(3/4): May-July 2006
- Vol 17(1): January-March 2007
- Vol 18(1): January-March 2008. EU agrees US demands to re-write data protection agreement; Genoa G8 trials and aftermath; UK immigration control; virtual walls in the South East; Spanish police abuses.
- Vol 18(3), July-September 2008: Remote computer searches; racism in Italy and Germany; "War on Terror" and the targeting of activists; abuse of asylum-seekers in UK
- Vol 18(2): April-June 2008: Digital tsunami and the surveillance state; outcry at Returns Directive; spying for Nestle
- Vol 18 (4): US demands EU re-write data protection agreement; Genoa G8 trials; Turkish borders; Spanish police abuses
- Vol 19 (1): SIS II in crisis; police remote access to computers; forgotten casuaties of the Iraq war; deaths at EU-Morocco borders
- Vol 19 (3): EU and Germany target "troublemakers"; policing the G20; Dutch passport databases; EU security research
- Vol 19 (2): EU needs democratic debate; policing the G20; German anti-terrorist law; policing from dictatorships to democracy
- Vol 19 (4): DNA retention in the UK; abuse in Italian prisons; children in detention; EU decision-making process
- Vol 20(1): Dutch databases challenged; convictions in France over detention centre fire; "open source" intelligence industry
- Vol 20 (2): EU internal security strategy; international summit protests; "speculative invoicing" in the UK
- Vol 21 (1): Europe's DNA databases; the death of Jimmy Mubenga; German police shooting
- Vol 21 (2): The police and security research; Anglo-German undercover police exchanges; ten years after the Genoa G8
- Vol 21 (3): Criticism of UK terrorism measures; the Arab Spring and the EU; telecoms interception in Dresden
- Vol 22 (1): Repression of anti-austerity activists; growing racism in the EU; regulating civil society
- Vol 22(2/3): UK secret justice; when dissent becomes subversion; Sean Rigg's death; Frontex and travel surveillance
- Vol 22(4): EU intelligence secrecy; Roma expulsions; Italy's open-ended emergency; Northern Ireland cover-ups
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Events
- Secrecy and the externalisation of EU migration control
- The growing infrastructure and business model behind (im)migration and surveillance technologies
- Webinar: Activists and NGOs under watch! Are you in Europol’s databases?
- Surveillance technology and artificial intelligence: what impact for people on the move?
- Workshop: Policing the crisis, policing as crisis: the problem(s) with Europol
- AI at the borders: Negotiations, regulations and fundamental rights
- Monitoring the state and learning from history: policing and racism in the Statewatch Library & Archive
- Secrecy in the European Union: how to exercise your right to information
- Deportation Union: the role of Frontex
- Biometrics, big data and state power
- Northern Ireland: The legacy of collusion
- Launch of the Statewatch Library & Archive
- 2016: 25th anniversary conference
- 2011: 20th anniversary conference
- 2001: 10th anniversary conference
- Deportation Union: databases for expulsions
- Deportation Union: revamped return policies and reckless forced removals
- Report launch: Automated suspicion: The EU’s new travel surveillance initiatives
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