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  • Relaunch of the EU-US Migration Platform

    Relaunch of the EU-US Migration Platform

    Twice a year the USA and the EU want to meet to talk about migration and asylum policies At their most recent meeting in Washington last December, the justice and interior ministers of the EU and the USA revived their…

  • German activists receive asylum in Venezuela

    German activists receive asylum in Venezuela

    After Interpol already withdrew an arrest request, two leftists now finally escape persecution by the German justice system The Venezuelan refugee commission has granted the two German-born Peter Krauth and Thomas Walter a claim for protection from political persecution. They…

  • Facial recognition and police records: European biometric systems to be expanded

    Facial recognition and police records: European biometric systems to be expanded

    A new Prüm system will make it possible to query facial images across Europe in the future, and a central biometric EU repository will also be connected to it For 14 years, the member states of the European Union have…

  • New Europol regulation: EU member states want to blindside parliament with renewed time stamps

    New Europol regulation: EU member states want to blindside parliament with renewed time stamps

    For years, the EU police agency has been storing dumps of data on crime victims and witnesses. New legislation will legalise this practice. An exception should now apply to information Europol collected before it comes into force. According to a…