Monitoring the Stockholm Programme
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Amnesty International Recommendation to Swedish Presidency of the EU
In this document, AI presents specific recommendations to the Swedish Presidency on a range of pressing human rights issues on which Sweden is uniquely placed to effect change. These include ensuring the adoption of the new anti-discrimination directive, taking decisive steps towards the proper implementation of the EU Guidelines on Torture, utilizing the window of […]
The Stockholm Programme – Justice and Migration
A new five year programme on legal cooperation within the EU will be high on the agenda during the Swedish EU presidency. The programme covers a wide span of collaborations including how to deal with inter-European criminals and with asylum seekers. The current Hague Programme started in autumn 2004 and will run out by […]
EU Stockholm Program: Surveillance State-in-Waiting?
“The Stockholm Program.” The “Future Group.” The names of the European Union’s surveillance initiatives sound like they come from a spy novel. But this major assault on civil liberties within Europe is no fiction. “The EU has gone much further than the usa in terms of the legislation it has adopted to place its citizens […]
UNHCR’s recommendations to Sweden for its European Union Presidency
The preparations for the Stockholm Programme will bring the European asylum policies into the spotlight. To assist Sweden when leading the negotiations on the Programme, UNHCR has presented a number of recommendations on refugee protection to be taken into consideration. The asylum procedure is currently undergoing a harmonization process within the European Union. Policies and […]
The surveillance society is an EU-wide issue
The EU’s new five-year plan for justice and home affairs will export the UK’s database state to the rest of the EU Every five years the EU adopts a five-year plan for justice and home affairs affecting many areas of EU citizens‘ civil liberties – policing, immigration and asylum, criminal law, databases and data protection. […]
ECLN Statement on the EU’s Stockholm Programme
Oppose authoritarian state practices and create a democratic Europe The European Civil Liberties Network, a coalition of civil liberties, activist and human rights group across Europe, has published a statement calling on civil society groups and individuals to voice their opinions about the EU’s Stockholm programme – which sets the agenda for EU justice and […]
Call for Summer of Resistance 2009
Against NATO, G20, G8, Frontex and the “Stockholm Programme”! Collapse the security architectures! Since the end of the last millennium a modification of the “security architecture” within the EU takes place, which have been accelerated by the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Visible phenomena are for example the entanglement of internal […]
The Shape of Things to Come – EU Future Group
“Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record. This will generate a wealth of information for public security organisations, and create huge opportunities for more effective and productive public security efforts." (EU Council Presidency paper) Analysis by Tony Bunyan 1. Introduction 2. What […]
Social Movements Against the Global Security Architecture!
A Critique of the Militarisation of Social Conflict and the Securitisation of Everyday Life Recent unrest due to food price hikes, protests against rising energy costs, visions and realities of a climate crisis and growing concerns over scarce resources, in conjunction with the continued turmoil of financial markets, are creating a sense of insecurity for […]
Collapsing the European security architecture
For greater security-critical behaviour in Europe A proposal for the resistance movement: Against NATO, G8 and swedish EU Presidency 2009 german: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Gipfelsoli/4818.html italiano: http://gipfelsoli.org/Heiligendamm_2007_italiano/4821.html Each protest enables us to draw conclusions of how to do things better next time. In the same way, we can draw conclusions from the mobilisation against the G8 summit 2007 […]