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ECJ Will Hold Hearing on UK Surveillance Law
April 01, 2016
The Guardian reports that the Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ") has scheduled an emergency hearing in April to determine whether UK legislation requiring that telecommunications companies retain communications data for a maximum period of 12 months violates EU law.
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Former CIA Director: EU Interferes with National Security Services
April 01, 2016
Asserting that the EU "is not a natural contributor to national security" and in some cases even interferes with national security services, former US Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") Director Michael Hayden has rejected the claim that a British exit from the EU would heighten the exposure of the UK and Europe to security risks.
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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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