Statewatching Europe

A day conference on civil liberties, the state and the European Union.

Saturday 25 June 2016, 9.45-5pm
Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7

Includes workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in the Med and in the EU; mass surveillance; the EU’s crisis of legitimacy and accountability; the policing of protest and criminalisation of communities; racism, xenophobia and the far right; strategies of resistance and the defence of civil liberties.

Speakers include:

Ann Singleton – Co-Chair, Statewatch
Tony Bunyan – Director, Statewatch
Deirdre Curtin – Professor of European Union Law, European University Institute
Steve Peers – Professor of Law, University of Essex
Emilio de Capitani – FREE Group
Ralf Bendrath
Frances Webber – Institute of Race Relations, UK
Stratos Georgoulas – Lesvos, Greece
Gus Hosein – Privacy International
Val Swain – Netpol, UK
Steve Wright – Leeds Beckett University
Eric Topfer – CILIP, Berlin
Ben Hayes
Amandine Bach
Liz Fekete – Director, Institute of Race Relations
Matthias Monroy – Berlin
Eveline Lubbers – Undercover Research Group
Heiner Busch – Solidarité sans frontières, Switzerland
Suresh Grover – The Monitoring Group
Deborah Coles – INQUEST
Dave Whyte – Liverpool John Moores University
Gareth Pierce – lawyer
Aidan White – Ethical Journalism Network
Eric Kempson – Hope Centre, Lesvos, Greece
Jean Lambert MEP – Green/EFA group
Stafford Scott – The Monitoring Group
Courtenay Griffiths QC
Ska Keller MEP – Green/EFA group
Lorenzo Trucco – ASGI, Italy
Caroline Intrand – Migreurop
Philippe Wanneson – Passeurs d’hospitalités, Calais
Vassilis Karydis – Acting Ombudsman of Greece
Staffan Dahllöf – Denmark

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