January 10, 2011 – 10:01 pm
The European Arrest Warrant has come under much discussion in the UK media following the arrest of Julien Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Main arguments against the EAW surround the topic of the quantity of EAW’s being issued to the UK in comparison to the number received by other Members States and the apparent lack [...]
December 15, 2010 – 5:24 pm
The traditional meeting between the justice and home affairs ministerial representatives of the United States of America (USA) and of the European Union (EU) took place the 8th and 9th December 2010. Ms Janet Napolitano, from the Department of Homeland Security and Mr Eric Holder, General Attorney of the Department of Justice have discussed with [...]
The European Parliament adopted on the 5th May 2010 the two resolutions on SWIFT and PNR: European Parliament resolution of 5 May 2010 on the Recommendation from the Commission to the Council to authorise the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America to make available to [...]
The European Parliament will vote the resolution on the PNR agreement during the mini-plenary that will take place in Brussels on Thursday 6 May 2010. This after the LIBE Committee announced in April the intention to postpone the vote on the EU-USA PNR agreement, calling the Commission to put forward a more comprehensive measure defining [...]
April 20, 2010 – 12:14 pm
European Commission: Stockholm Programme: Statewatch Analysis: Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme: A bit more freedom and justice and a lot more security (pdf) by Tony Bunyan: “The “harnessing of the digital tsunami” as advocated by the EU Future Group and the surveillance society, spelt out in Statewatch’s “The Shape of Things to Come” is embedded in [...]
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The LIBE Committee discussed on 7 April 2010 the re-launch of negotiations on a SWIFT long term agreement. It has to be recalled that following the European Parliament refusal to provide its consent on the US-EU SWIFT Interim Agreement last February a new draft-negotiating mandate has been indeed submitted by the College of Commissioners on [...]
March 17, 2010 – 11:22 pm
As anticipated in a previous post in this blog the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home affairs (LIBE) discussed the draft report on the directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings presented by rapporteur Sarah Ludford on 17 March 2010, based [...]
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago in the blog (10 January 2010 – Directive on data retention: now the floor goes to the German Constitutional Court) the German Constitutional Court was preparing to make a decision about the German internal application of the controversial Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC), demanding telecommunication data retention from 6 months [...]
February 24, 2010 – 8:16 pm
The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) debated on February 23rd the state of the play of the EU accession to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). The accession is imposed by Article 6 TEU and its main impact will be the creation of an additional layer of protection [...]
February 21, 2010 – 6:38 pm
The text below have been taken from the official Council of Europe Press release presenting the result of the Interlaken Conference (19.02.2010) It is worth noting that on Thursday, just before the opening of the Ministerial Conference, the Russian Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov deposited the ratification instrument of Protocol 14 which will therefore enter [...]
