Statewatch has published two major stories on EU-US cooperation and UK-US cooperation:
1. EU-USA agreements - the drafts on the table
- two agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance being negotiated in secret
- extradition to USA to apply to any suspected offences bringing just a one year sentence
- USA successfully opposed any reference to the International Criminal Court or to Special Courts (Military Tribunals)
- data protection sidelined again: "A broad, categorical, or systematic application of data protection principles to refuse cooperation is.. precluded"
- FBI and other US agencies to operate in EU in joint investigation teams with full powers of search, surveillance and arrest
plus full-text of the draft agreements
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01Auseuag.htm
2. EU-USA and UK-USA
- UK parliament Committee refuses to scrutinise agreements in secret
- UK agrees new treaty with USA on extradition
- UK and USA prepare for "simultaneous attacks"
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/07euusauk.htm
Statewatch News online is on:
http://www.statewatch.org/news
Please also read: Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, April 9, 2003
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2813.htm
1. EU-USA agreements - the drafts on the table
- two agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance being negotiated in secret
- extradition to USA to apply to any suspected offences bringing just a one year sentence
- USA successfully opposed any reference to the International Criminal Court or to Special Courts (Military Tribunals)
- data protection sidelined again: "A broad, categorical, or systematic application of data protection principles to refuse cooperation is.. precluded"
- FBI and other US agencies to operate in EU in joint investigation teams with full powers of search, surveillance and arrest
plus full-text of the draft agreements
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01Auseuag.htm
2. EU-USA and UK-USA
- UK parliament Committee refuses to scrutinise agreements in secret
- UK agrees new treaty with USA on extradition
- UK and USA prepare for "simultaneous attacks"
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/07euusauk.htm
Statewatch News online is on:
http://www.statewatch.org/news
Please also read: Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, April 9, 2003
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2813.htm