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Article: EU Will Not Be the Source of Defense Cooperation
April 01, 2016
An article on Stratfor highlights the limitations of the EU as a hub of defense cooperation among member states, as the economic and trading bloc was not built to become a "security union."
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Former MI6 Chief: Brexit Could Make UK Safer
March 31, 2016
Predicting that intelligence cooperation between the British government and others, including EU members and the US, would continue following a UK exit from the EU, former head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove has asserted that such an exit could actually lead to UK "security gains."
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ECtHR Finds "Systemic" Problem on Pre-trial Detention in Russia
March 31, 2016
Finding that Russia's practice of keeping a defendant in custody without sufficient reasons has been "the subject of recurrent and numerous complaints," the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") called on the country in a recent case to continue efforts to solve problems with pre-trial detention, including by implementing relevant recommendations from the Council of Europe.
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FRA Hosts Meeting on Border Control Rights Violations
March 31, 2016
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ("FRA") recently hosted a meeting with representatives from the EU, UN, border control agencies, and academia to discuss how countries must avoid human rights violations in working with countries outside the EU to implement border control measures.
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UK Official: EU Rules Ease Entry by Terror Suspects
March 30, 2016
UK Under Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab has warned that EU rules have made the bar for border security to deny the entry into Britain of suspected terrorists and criminals "impossibly high" and argued that deporting foreign criminals would be easier if Britain opts to leave the EU.