Home-made explosives: tougher rules to access high-risk chemicals
20/11/2012
The European parliament signed off today on a regulation limiting the scourge of home-made explosives by tightening up and further regulating the sales of certain chemicals to legal public use (private users) due to their dual...
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Assessing European complicity in the CIA rendition programme is overdue
10/07/2012
Five years from the European Parliament's report into alleged European collusion with CIA 'extraordinary rendition' (kidnap and secret illegal detention) developed as part of Bush "war on terror", the Civil Liberties committee...
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EU-US Terrorism Finance Tracking Programme agreement is a dead letter
03/07/2012
ALDE is calling for a debate with the Commission on the implementation of the EU-US Terrorism Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) agreement, given the alarming conclusions that have emerged from the second monitoring of the Joint...
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ALDE calls for extra guarantees on the EU-US PNR agreement
17/04/2012
The ALDE Group decided that extra guarantees are required on the EU-US PNR agreement, due to be voted this Thursday in the European Parliament during its plenary session.
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EP Rapporteur In 't Veld set to reject new EU-US Passenger Name Records Agreement (PNR)
01/02/2012
Sophie in 't Veld (D66, NL), will outline today her recommendation for the European Parliament to withhold consent on the EU-US PNR Agreement for which she is Parliament's rapporteur. The Agreement on the transfer of Passenger...
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EU must evaluate effectiveness of counter terrorism policies
14/12/2011
By endorsing the report by Sophie in 't Veld (D66, Netherlands) today on EU Counter Terrorism policy, the European Parliament calls on the Commission to draw up a complete and detailed map of all existing counter terrorism...
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Verhofstadt welcomes end to violence in Basque country
21/10/2011
Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament warmly welcomed ETA's announcement of a definitive end to violence which marks an historic end to Europe's longest standing terrorist campaign.
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Commission 'options' for EU Terrorist Finance Tracking fall short of promised legislation
13/07/2011
The European Commission today is due to present a communication on different options for an EU Terrorism Finance Tracking System (EU TFTS) following last year's deal with the European Parliament in return for approving an...
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EU must carry out full evaluation of Counter Terrorism policies
12/07/2011
“In a democratic society, all policies are subject to parliamentary scrutiny and evaluation. The regular standards of transparency and accountability should apply to counter terrorism like any other policy area. But so far...
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Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme is not respecting data protection safeguards
05/03/2011
Europol’s supervisory body has just published a report on the implementation of the EU-US TFTP agreement (Terrorism Finance Tracking Programme), the so-called SWIFT agreement. The conclusions by the Joint Supervisory Board...
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