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View from the EU

Is Europe the last line of defence for British liberty or a route for government to push through domestically unpopular legislation?

Follow Tony Bunyan of Statewatch as he files regular dispatches on civil liberties and human rights issues in the European Union

25 January 2010

  • Security before liberty

    Tony Bunyan
    Tony Bunyan: View from the EU: An EU-US joint declaration on aviation security shows the powerful influence of US homeland security policy

3 September 2009

  • Secrets and laws

    Tony Bunyan

    View from the EU: Tony Bunyan: MEPs should remember that their primary loyalty is to the people who elected them - they must cast aside the EU's secret legislative process

24 June 2009

  • Europe's race to the right

    Tony Bunyan
    Tony Bunyan: View from the EU: The results of the European elections look certain to cement the centre-right and far-right's sway over politics in Europe

9 June 2009

  • Watching the computers

    Tony Bunyan

    View from the EU: Tony Bunyan: Function creep allows EU states to use intrusive remote computer searches to target any crime, however minor

28 May 2009

  • The surveillance society is an EU-wide issue

    Tony Bunyan
    View from the EU: Tony Bunyan: 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

20 May 2009

  • Open government in the EU

    Tony Bunyan

    Tony Bunyan: View from the EU: The debate over MPs' expenses demonstrates why access to information is the lifeblood of any healthy democratic system

8 May 2009

  • We're not the only ones to stifle dissent

    Tony Bunyan
    Tony Bunyan: View from the EU: Police tactics at the G20 demonstrations reflect an Europe–wide trend to conflate terrorism and protest as equal threats to security

24 April 2009

  • My view from the EU

    Tony Bunyan

    Tony Bunyan: Introducing my new guide to the European Union's impact on British liberty – Eurosceptics and Europhiles welcome

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