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EU: Statewatch Analysis: EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs cooperation: an honest and equal relationship?

31 July 2015

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Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments:

“The USA role in justice and home affairs is like that of the 29th EU state. Year after year since 2001 there have been regular meetings of Ministers and Senior Officials in Brussels and Washington - it also attended the six-monthly G6 meetings of EU Interior Ministers (and its preparatory meetings)

The USA is a major, unseen, influence on EU justice and home affairs policies and practices and uses the meetings to lobby for direct access to EU and Member State databases.

These meetings take place on the oft-repeated assumption that the USA and the EU “share common values of democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights and fundamental values”. However, there are many people, in Europe and the USA, who do indeed believe we share these “common values”, but not the policies and practices of our governments.”

See: EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs cooperation: an honest and equal relationship? (pdf)

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