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EU-Consultation On The European Citizensâ Initiative
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| The Lisbon Treaty introduces a new form of
| public participation in European Union
| policy shaping, the European citizensâ
| initiative, which enables one million
| citizens who are nationals of a significant
| number of Member States to call directly on
| the European Commission to bring forward an
| initiative of interest to them in an area
| of EU competence. Before citizens can start
| exercising this new right, a few ground
| rules and procedures have to be laid down
| in an EU regulation.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/eu-consultation-on-the-european-citizens-initiative/
The Lisbon Treaty - What Really Matters (in under three minutes)
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| One controversial issue, which arose at the
| drafting stage, related to the removal of
| âcompetition policyâ as one of the EUâs
| objectives from the draft Treaty. Instead,
| a legally binding âProtocol on Internal
| Market and Competitionâ was compiled,
| stating that âthe internal market as set
| out in Article 3 of the Treaty on European
| Union includes a system ensuring that
| competition is not distortedâ. However, the
| European Councilâs Legal Service also
| provided an opinion confirming that the
| fact such reference is omitted from the
| EUâs objectives would not, in any case,
| prevent the EU legislator from acting under
| Article 308 to ensure competition is not
| distorted.
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http://www.omm.com/lisbon-treaty/
Turkey tests new means of Internet control
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| "All internet communication data goes to
| foreign countries and then it returns. This
| activity has a security aspect," said
| Acarer. I can't be 100% certain but I think
| most of Turkish citizens would probably
| rather have their data go live somewhere on
| a Google server in California than to be
| looked at by Turkey's intelligence services
| - on a server in Istanbul. But then again I
| may be misjudging the mysterious Turkish
| soul.
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http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/30/turkey_tests_new_means_of_internet_control
Police U-turn on photographers and anti-terror laws
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| Police forces across the country have been
| warned to stop using anti-terror laws to
| question and search innocent photographers
| after The Independent forced senior
| officers to admit that the controversial
| legislation is being widely misused.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-uturn-on-photographers-and-antiterror-laws-1834626.html
The Digital Economy Bill - a first critical look
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| ...the Bill has an inflexible and
| stereotyped view of the way in which access
| to the internet is provided which ignores
| many useful and important business models:
| many business from Weatherspoons and
| Macondalds to the British Library and local
| community access projects will be affected
| and may have to cease to provide internet
| access.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2009/deb-first-look
âDo I have the right to refuse this search?â
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| Within the last few months, I have been
| singled out for âadditional screeningâ
| roughly half the time I step into an
| airport security line. On Friday, October
| 9, as I stepped out of the full-body
| scanning device at BWI, I decided I needed
| more information to identify why it is that
| I have become such an appealing candidate
| for secondary screening.
|
| Little did I know this would be only the
| first of many questions I now have
| regarding my airport experiences.
|
| Over these last few months, I have grown
| increasingly frustrated with what I view as
| an unjustifiable intrusion on my privacy.
| It was not so much the search (then) as it
| was the embarrassment of being singled out,
| effectively being told âYou are different,â
| but getting no explanation as to why.
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http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/15/%E2%80%9Cdo-i-have-the-right-to-refuse-this-search%E2%80%9D/
Recent:
EU competence to conclude Free Trade Agreements under the Lisbon Treaty
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| On Dec. 1, 2009, the European Union Lisbon
| Treaty will enter into force. (provisional
| consolidated text) On this page we present
| a draft analysis of the EU competence to
| conclude ACTA and other trade agreements.
|
| Generally speaking, the European
| Parliament's role becomes more important,
| the member states loose some of their veto
| power.
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http://action.ffii.org/acta/lisbon
Will secret copyright treaty restrict your digital rights?
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| Most Americans expect that their laws are
| only passed after some period of public
| debate between Republicans and Democrats or
| their news-channel proxies. However, the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
| may be an exception to this rule, and if it
| is signed, many United States laws
| concerning the Internet and ownership of
| data may become substantively different.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/143986/2009/11/acta_treaty.html
No, ACTA Secrecy Is Not 'Normal' -- Nor Is It A 'Distraction'
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| Over the last few weeks people who are
| actually concerned about individual rights
| have done a decent job sounding the alarm
| about the problems with what little we've
| seen of the ACTA negotiations. In the last
| week or so, those who work for the
| entertainment industry have suddenly started
| scrambling to respond, after realizing that
| more and more people are starting to pay
| attention and to worry about ACTA. However,
| it's been pretty funny to watch the
| desperate attempts by industry lawyers to
| try to paint this all as much ado about
| nothing (with gratuitous swipes at those of
| us who have called attention to what's going
| on).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1904177017.shtml
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