For 25 years the UK-based organisation Statewatch has been working to publish and promote investigative journalism and critical research in Europe in the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness. On Saturday 25 June Statewatch will mark the occasion with a day-long European Conference in London.

Statewatch is looking for a new home for its archive of 7,000+ paper documents on EU justice and home affairs policy.

By Tony Bunyan
The Council of the European Union is preparing plans to equate the concept of migrant ‘smuggling’ with migrant ‘trafficking’ and potentially criminalise or marginalise NGOs, local people and volunteers who for months have been welcoming and helping refugees and migrants arriving in the EU.

The Centre for Irish & European Security (CIES) & Statewatch announces the following debate: ‘Democratic institutions can no longer govern modern communications and surveillance technology’ in Dublin on 1 October 2012.

Statewatch has today launched a unique online archive of over 4,500 official documents (rising to over 6,500 by the end of 2012) that chart the development of EU justice and home affairs policy over three decades.