Statewatch News online, press release, 9 April 2003

Statewatch is publishing today 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


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