Press Release: Cutting bureaucracy and delays in the fight against crime within the EU

The UK Government announced on 27 July 2010, that it would support the new European Investigation Order (EIO).

• Primary Source

EUObserver, 29.7.10: EIO - anything to be alarmed about? (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/304121-eio-anything-be-alarmed-about

BBC News, 27.7.10: EU police plan is 'in interests of justice' - Minister http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid_8849000/8849155.stm

Statewatch: Statewatch Analysis, May 2010: The proposed European Investigation Order: Assault on human rights and national sovereignty http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-96-european-investigation-order.pdf

ConservativeHome, 28.7.10: Theresa May defends European Investigation Order as necessary for cross-border crime-fighting but backbench Tory MPs warn her that it is an EU 'power grab' http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2010/07/theresa-may-defends-european-investigation-order-as-necessary-for-crossborder-crimefighting-but-back.html

ESO: Background information: Initiative of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Estonia, the Kingdom of Spain, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Slovenia and the Kingdom of Sweden for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of … regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters http://www.europeansources.info/record/initiative-of-the-kingdom-of-belgium-the-republic-of-bulgaria-the-republic-of-estonia-the-kingdom-of-spain-the-republic-of-austria-the-republic-of-slovenia-and-the-kingdom-of-sweden-for-a-directi/

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