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Counter-terrorism and human rights - Is the EU on the right course?

Dick Leonard, Dick Leonard

June 30, 2005

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The EU responded with commendable – if unusual – alacrity to the worldwide terrorist threat unleashed on 11 September 2001.

Now, nearly four years later, Amnesty International has produced a disturbing report questioning how far this objective has been met.

Dick Leonard examines the EU's approach to counter-terrorism in an article published in The European Voice.