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EU: The Centrepiece of the German Council Presidency is to be the incorporation into the EU acquis of the Prum Treaty

01 January 2007

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Agreed in secret by the governments of Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Austria (the five original Schengen states plus Spain and Austria). Their national parliaments could not change a "dot or coma" nor will the other 18 EU parliaments be able to. As the UK House of Lords observed:

"if the Convention does become part of the legal framework of the EU, that framework will for practical purposes have been imposed by seven Member States on the other eighteen"

For background see:

- Behind closed doors - policy-making in secret intergovernmental and international fora
- House of Lords report: Behind Closed Doors
- Statewatch: Some remarks on Schengen III (the Prum Convention)
- The "principle of availability" Statewatch analysis.
- and the Prum Convention (full-text, pdf)

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