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OSCE, CoE Promote Human-Rights-First Security Message
February 11, 2016
At a meeting in Strasbourg, the Special Representative for the German Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Gernot Erler and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe ("CoE") Thorbjørn Jagland pledged cooperation between the organizations on security policies that prioritized "human rights and fundamental freedoms."
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Article: Data Objections Highlight EU Policy Limitations
February 11, 2016
An article in The Economist describes how demands from EU officials in their recent data deal with the US demonstrate that the necessarily limited scope of the EU's policy mandate, which does not include intelligence services, constricts the bloc's knowledge of the level of data collection needed to counter terrorist and other threats.
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O'Sullivan: Opponents of "Brexit" Ignore EU Failings
February 10, 2016
John O'Sullivan writes in National Review that British opponents of leaving the EU ignore or seek to play down the numerous crises facing the bloc and instead emphasize messages of fear and British weakness in making their case to remain in the EU superstructure.
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Malcolm: "Human Rights" Regime Narrows Democratic Choice
February 10, 2016
Sir Noel Malcolm writes that judges must take into account the harm to democracy that occurs when they use international human rights instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights to take issues that should be decided by the elected representatives of the people out of the hands of those representatives.
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EU Leaders Indicate Push-back Against "Emergency Brake"
February 10, 2016
The Guardian reports that, as some politicians in Austria and Switzerland support the creation and immediate use of an "emergency brake" to cut off social benefits to recent migrants from EU countries, as proposed by the UK, leaders of EU institutions may resist the change in order to prevent an "open season" for migration reform calls within the bloc.
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