1. Draft EU Convention Part 1 published, full-text
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/draftcv26May.pdf


2. Readmission agreements and EC external migration law: Statewatch analysis - with 15 primary documents full-text
see: see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/12readmission.htm


"The EU's approach to readmission agreements involves insisting that more and more non-EU countries sign up to broad readmission obligations to the EU with little or nothing in return. EU policy has been backed up by harsher and harsher rhetoric and threats against third countries as the EU becomes more and more unilateralist and focused solely on migration control. These policies are unbalanced, inhumane, and internally contradictory"


3. Spain: Legal action against policing of demonstrations
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/13spaindemos.htm


4. USA: ACLU Releases Report on Suppression of Dissent in a Post 9/11 America
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/14aclu.htm


5. Greece: 17 November in the dock - Unjust justice in Athens: Article
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/11greece.htm


6. UK: Privacy International launch campaign for consumers to obtain their records from telecommunications companies
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/10data.htm


7. G8: Decisions from the Justice and Home Affairs Mministers meeting in Paris on 5 May 2002
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/09g8.htm


And on "News in brief"
 http://www.statewatch.org/news/Newsinbrief.htm


8. EU: European Commission Scoreboard on Justice and Home Affairs issues: Full-text (pdf), 22.5.2003, COM(2003) 291 final. Biannual update, First half of 2003


9. USA: "War on terror" Use of Data Collection Systems Is Up Sharply Following 9/11 by Ann Davis, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2003


10. EU: Agenda for the European Council, 20-21 June 2003 in Thessalonika, Greece


11. The European Commission has just put out the first report on the operation of the 1995 EC Directive on data protection at national level (15.5.2003) (COM(2003) 265 final) "First report on the implementation of the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC)": Report (pdf). The discrepancies are however more evident in the Technical analysis (pdf). Particularly illuminating is the submission by the US government which calls on the EU to: "refrain from imposing compliance standards", to inform the USA of "any actions taken which may interrupt data flows to the United States" and to "refrain from concentrating their enforcement efforts exclusively on large multinational corporations": Text of US letter


12. EU: Press release from the meetng of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 8 May 2003


13. USA: FISA Surveillance Reached All-Time High in 2002: Report from EPIC
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