Archive
Vol 12(5): August-October 2002
Cover story: "Safe and dignified", voluntary or "forced"
repatriation to "safe" third countries - coupled with trade and aid sanctions against countries who are “uncooperative” Read More
Vol 12(3/4): May-July 2002
Cover story: Surveillance of telecommunications: Data retention to be "compulsory" Read More
Vol 12(2): March-April 2002
Cover story: EU-US secret agreement in the making - secret agreement on criminal matters, investigative procedures and joint teams being negotiated without the the European or national parliaments being consulted Read More
The “enemy within”: EU plans the surveillance of protestors and the criminalisation of protests
EU plans on public order would give control of operations to the newly-created EU “Task Force of Chief Police Officers” which has no legal basis for its activities; create mechanisms for “operational” cooperation for which there are no legal powers; legitimise the ongoing surveillance by “police and intelligence officers” (internal security services) of “persons or groups likely to pose a threat to public order and security”; create national databases of “troublemakers” based on suspicion and supposition without any legal standards or data protection and the unregulated exchange of this data; and allow EU member states to pass laws to prevent people from going to protests in other countries if their names have been recorded as “suspects” or if they have been convicted of minor public order offences (obstructing the highway). Read More
Vol 10(6): November-December 2000
Cover story: UK/EU/G8: The "Agencies" demand: - every phone call - every mobile phone-call - every fax - every e-mail - every website - every web page visited/downloaded - from anywhere - by everyone - is recorded, archived and is accessible for all least seven years: in "a safe and free society" everyone is a "suspect" Read More
Vol 10(5): September-October 2000
Europol given the power to initiate criminal investigations - EU Council of Ministers agree to ignore legal and constitutional niceties Read More
Crossing the internal borders: communication from the German delegation concerning the measures taken pursuant to Article 2(2), second sentence of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement
Vol 10(1): January-February 2000
Cover story: UK: Legitimising surveillance - the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (the R.I.P. Bill) Read More
SIRPIT project plan – trial run
Vol 9 (5): September-October 1999
Cover story: The story of Tampere – an undemocratic process excluding civil society Read More