On her Mail blog, Mary Ellen Synon writes about the EU’s ‘Stockholm programme’, which will give the EU new legal powers over cross border police co-operation, counter-terrorism, immigration and border controls if the Lisbon Treaty comes into force.

The Irish Times quotes Statewatch Director Tony Bunyan saying that the proposals will “require unfettered powers to access and gather masses of personal data on the everyday life of everyone so that we can all be safe and secure from perceived ‘threats’. But how are we to be safe from the State itself, from its uses and abuses of the data they hold on us?”

(…again thanks to Open Europe)