European interior ministry to be set up secretly - EU style the COSI is born

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

EU Treaty scrutiny too COSI

Posted by Bruno Waterfield on 11 Feb 2008 at 10:13

Plans to create a powerful new European Union “Interior Ministry” under the new Lisbon Treaty will be agreed in secret by Brussels officials over the next four or five months without any public or parliamentary scrutiny.

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The new Reform Treaty resurrects proposals from the old EU Constitution, rejected by French and Dutch voters two years ago, for a “Standing Committee on Internal Security”, already known as COSI in euro-jargon.

The final blueprint for COSI’s extensive powers will be agreed during the second half of this year – in other words the House of Commons will have ratified the Treaty before MPs know what they have signed us all up to.

And, the British public and their elected representatives will be kept in the dark because all discussions will be held in secret meetings of the Council of the EU, the Brussels body that represents national governments.

The Treaty text, Article 61D on page 77, to be rushed through the House of Commons over the next days, baldly states that: “A standing committee shall be set up within the Council in order to ensure that operational cooperation on internal security is promoted and strengthened within the Union.”

Secret internal EU documents, circulated almost three years ago, admitted that “the exact nature of the committee cannot be discerned by reading” the relevant clause of the Treaty - and no new work to clarify the issue has been carried out since.

Tony Bunyan, of the Statewatch civil liberties group, has warned that if the Government “gets its way we will see an EU Interior Ministry without any democratic control”.

“It is quite outrageous that the role of the new EU internal security committee is being decided in secret,” he said. “If COSI becomes a high-level legislative body, as well being in charge of operational matters, a whole swathe of decision-making and practice will be removed from democratic debate and discussion.”

A Government spokesman said: “The creation of a standing committee is in the UK's interest because it will enable more effective co-operation in the field of justice and home affairs.”

EU documents indicate that COSI will be given a blank cheque.

“Internal security should at least include… the prevention and combating of crime, the prevention of the terrorist threat, intelligence exchange, public order management, the prevention and combating of criminal offences such as illegal immigration and trafficking in persons, the provision of an integrated management system for external borders… and crisis management with cross-border effects within the EU.”
The paper continues:

“In an attempt to draw up options for the future COSI's configuration, all possible tasks related to “internal security” could be clustered as follows, on the basis of the relevant provisions of the Constitutional Treaty:

(a) legislative function
(b) strategic functions and in particular elaborating an EU plan for internal security
(c) solidarity clause related functions
(d) operational planning functions
(e) evaluation functions
(f) external relations.”

As my colleague Philip Johnston writes in today’s newspaper: "The EU already has an embryonic police force (Europol), a courts arm (Eurojust), a paramilitary riot squad (European Gendarmerie Force), a European Arrest Warrant, and will now, under Lisbon, have a European public prosecutor and what could become an interior ministry (COSI) to pull it all together."

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[Kernunnos]

I wonder how much citizens are informed that the new state is being creted withou any parlamentariana ctivity, but just through the work uf undelected bureucrats.

This way of working is much more typical of the masonic lodges, where they have no democracy and everything is decided by the upper masonic echelons "for the common good".

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Originally Posted by Breha

I wonder how much citizens are informed that the new state is being creted withou any parlamentariana ctivity, but just through the work uf undelected bureucrats.

This way of working is much more typical of the masonic lodges, where they have no democracy and everything is decided by the upper masonic echelons "for the common good".

They have been creating a totalitarian hell on earth in Europe and the European "sheeple" does not say a word.