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UK-EU: The complexities of Brexit
"There really are no easy answers here. The idea that we can just walk away from the EU is utter nonsense but all the other options are complex. The length of time they will take Read More
BREXIT: New legal challenge in Northern Ireland
"A campaigner for the rights of victims of the Troubles has launched the first legal challenge in Northern Ireland to the UK leaving the European Union. Raymond McCord lodged papers at the High Court in Read More
UK: Investigatory Powers Bill: the issues at stake
"Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand and others have introduced powers to give security services and police far-reaching surveillance powers. No country, however, is going quite as far as the UK in creating laws that give Read More
EU: New handbook on alternatives to prison
"Severe overcrowding and bad conditions are common features of prisons in all the eight states involved in this, the latest European Prison Observatory project: Italy, France, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. Read More
UK: Older prisoners set up to fail by lack of support on release
"Older people released from prison are being set up to fail by a lack of adequate provision to meet their health and social care needs, according to a report published today by the Prison Reform Read More
EU: Money laundering and terrorist financing: Commission set to adopt first EU-wide list of “high-risk third countries”
The European Commission is due to adopt this Friday a list of 11 "high risk [non-EU] countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering/countering terrorist financing", establishing for the first time a common EU list Read More
EU: Implementing the Internal Security Strategy: May 2015 update
A May 2016 version of the "living document" maintained by the Presidency of the Council giving an overview of the implementation of the EU's Internal Security Strategy. It outlines "results achieved" between December 2015 and Read More
EU: Police chiefs: nine-point programme on keeping the ‘Balkan Route’ closed
The declaration was adopted following a meeting on 30 June in Vienna of police chiefs from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It was circulated on 5 Read More
Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (11-12.6.16)
- EU: Council of the European Union: Central Med Route, Relocation and IPCR - Central Mediterranean route (LIMITE doc no: 8624-16, pdf) Written on 3 May before the arrival of thousands of refugees in Italy: Read More
BELGIUM: Council of Europe worried about Belgian prisons crisis
"The Council of Europe, the continent’s oldest organisation specialised in human rights, has visited prisons in Belgium where a large number of staff were absent due to strike and therefore did not provide services to Read More