1. EU annual reports on access to documents - still a very long way to go:

- less than 50% of Council documents available to citizens, European Commission's register of documents "a disgrace", speech by Tony Bunyan to the European Parliament:

"It is ten years since the Code on access to Council and Commission documents was introduced in 1993 and it is six years since Article 255 in the Amsterdam Treaty allegedly "enshrined" the citizens' right of access. Yet even now less than 50% of the contents of documents on the Council's public register have been released and the Commission's public register is absolutely useless. How much longer are we going to have to wait for freedom of information in the EU?"
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/24open.htm">www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/24open.htm


2. UK: Civil Contingencies Bill: Emergency Powers - ancient arbitrary
powers preserved:
- Royal perogative and Privy Council to authorise emergency powers
- Scope of new law extended to protect the government, the state and financial institutions
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/23acivil.htm">www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/23acivil.htm


3. EU Summit: Agreement on "harmonised" biometric identification linked to EU databases
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/22bio.htm">www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/22bio.htm


4. EU Council in Greece:

i) Text of the Convention on the future of Europe as presented to the EU Council:
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/cv00820.en03.pdf">www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/cv00820.en03.pdf

ii) the paper by Javier Solana, EU High Representative for CFSP, on Security Strategies "A SECURE EUROPE IN A BETTER WORLD", (20.6.03) to the European Council in Thessalonika: see News online and download:
www.statewatch.org//news


5. Annotated Agenda: EU Summit in Greece: 19-20 June
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/19thess.htm


6. Weekly deaths at European borders - fatal realities of Fortress Europe
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/20deaths.htm


7. UK: Intelligence and security annual report full of the usual *** (deleted text)
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/17intel.htm


8. EU working party on data protection highly critical of proposed deal on US access to passenger data
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/15data.htm


9. Italy: Journalists strike over threat to "press freedom"
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/14italy.htm


10. UK: Government extends list of "safe" third countries to 24
see: www.statewatch.org//news/2003/jun/16safe.htm