Sunday, November 21, 2010

What have the European countries tied themselves into?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331654/March-Euro-police-The-shocking-powers-prosecution-EU-us.html

Held without bail for months or years, kind of smacks of the Patriot Act to me.
The paramilitary police force sounds like the SS. Why is there a need for one anyway, when they already have a European CIA? Shouldn't they be able to coordinate with the police individual police depts of each country?
Economically that makes more sense.


A Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered an alarming array of new EU controls over justice and home affairs for which no one has voted, and most are unknown to the public.

These include:

Europol, the £60 million-a-year European criminal intelligence agency,
whose officers have diplomatic immunity.

An 800-strong paramilitary police force called the European Gendarmerie Force.

The European Arrest Warrant, which now allows British citizens to be seized in the UK and sent without appeal to foreign jails for months or years without bail while awaiting trial.