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    A flu for all seasons
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    Swine flu is quite handy to politicians, who can use it to postpone elections, or justify a state of emergency, if needed.

    Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
    Frank Slijper

    While it is too early to effectively evaluate the EDA, its lack of accountability in an increasingly militarised European Union is deeply problematic.

    Interview: Neoconopticon report
    Ben Hayes

    The lack of debate on EU's emerging policies on security is not just about "sleepwalking into a surveillance society”, it is also turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards.

    Big business and security
    Ben Hayes

    In its haste to cash-in on the security boom, the EU has outsourced its research agenda to corporate self-interest.

    Defence industry dominates EU’s security research programme

    The NeoConOpticon report, released by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch, reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme that has the explicit aim of fostering a European Homeland Security...

    The convergence of fundamentalisms and new political closures – What next in the struggle for pluralism?
    Praful Bidwai
    Torture: America's policy, Europe's shame
    Mariano Aguirre
     Jan Egeland and Mariano Aguirre
    The degrading treatment meted out to prisoners of the United States-led "war on terror" over seven years has yet to be subject to proper legal scrutiny and accountability. But the responsibility is Europe's too, say Jan Egeland & Mariano Aguirre.
    Where have all our Human Rights Gone? EU Migration Policy 2008: Response and Resistance
    Brid Brennan

    The Single European Act ratified in 1987, introduces the discussion on migrants in the same paragraph as drug traffickers and terrorists. Ever since, European migration policy has pursued an approach of criminalizing migrants.

    We the Peoples of Europe
    Susan George

    A more neo-liberal, anti-democratic document than the EU Constitution, rejected by the French and the Dutch may be hard to imagine, but the new reform treaty tries hard. Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe, what must we reject and how will such a document affect our...

    The Democratisation of Disempowerment
    Jochen Hippler

    The market-oriented democratisation of the Third World has been developed by Western powers as a policy that fuses both democratic rhetoric and support for more pluralist policies in the Third World, with the pursuit of Western interests.

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