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EU: EU agrees US demands to re-write data protection agreement by
Tony Bunyan. Having got its way in a series of EU-US treaties on justice
and home affairs cooperation, the USA is now seeking to permanently
circumvent the EU’s “problematic” privacy laws
Italy: Making sense of the Genoa G8 trials and aftermath by Yasha
Maccanico. This article seeks to identify some of the key points for
understanding the outcome of the trials involving demonstrators and police
officers in relation to events during the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001,
and to investigate the implications for public order policing and the right to
demonstrate.
The shake-up in UK immigration control by Frances Webber. With a
budget of over £2 million and more than 25,000 staff, the new UK Borders
Agency will have a host of powers to enforce yet more draconian
immigration legislation
Virtual walls in the South East: Turkey on its way to Schengen by
Emre Ertem. The EU will only grant freedom of movement to Turkish
workers when Turkey fulfils the criteria of the Schengen acquis. To
facilitate EU accession, Turkey is therefore trying to close its south-eastern
borders to unwanted immigration. Amongst other developments, Turkey is
planning "reception points" for around 5,000 asylum seekers and is
creating a new paramilitary border police force.
Spain: Reports detail abuses committed by police forces in
demonstrations, prisons and against migrants by Yasha Maccanico.
Social movements and people in detention are often on the receiving end
of police violence and brutality at the hands of the Spanish state
Germany: Permanent state of “prevention” (pre-emption) by Katrin
McGauran. Reform of the Federal Police Authority is the latest in a series
of legal, institutional and technological developments underpinning
Germany’s increasingly authoritarian 'security architecture'.
UK:Joint Committee on Human Rights enquiry into policing and
protest by Max Rowlands. As the right to protest in the UK is steadily
eroded, civil libertarians, trade unionists and journalists put their concerns
to parliament
New material - reviews and sources
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