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EU: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Riga, Latvia 29-30 January

31 January 2015

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See the full text: Agenda (pdf) and Background Note (pdf) including: "strengthening Europol's role in the monitoring and analysis of social media communication on the internet."

Europol to become the EU's "thought police"? See: Chief constable warns against ‘drift towards police state’ Greater Manchester’s Sir Peter Fahy says it is not the police’s job to define what counts as extremism (Guardian, link): "The battle against extremism could lead to a “drift towards a police state” in which officers are turned into “thought police”, one of Britain’s most senior chief constables has warned."

See also: Counter Terrorism Coordinator: EU CTC input for the preparation of the informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Riga on 29 January 2015 (LIMITE, DS doc no: 1035-13, 14 pages, 17 January 2015, pdf)

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