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Enjoying fundamental rights and respecting the rule of law
We believe in an EU where citizens enjoy their fundamental rights, and the rule of law is fully respected. Our Working Group on Legal and Home Affairs focuses on making this happen and issues such as migration, civil liberties, gender equality, and constitutional and legal matters.
Our Group has made significant progress in various areas, such as securing European borders, fighting terrorism and fraud, and increasing protection for victims. We advocated for the creation of a European Border and Coast Guard (Frontex), electronic checks for citizens crossing Europe’s external borders, and disclosure of airline passenger records. We updated the legal framework on terrorism and ended elaborate terrorist financing.
We have made huge progress towards a common European approach to immigration and asylum policy. Additionally, we prioritise effective protection of intellectual property rights in the digital era to support economic growth that requires a legal framework that ensures effective protection of intellectual property rights online as well as offline. The protection of intellectual property rights in the digital era is also high on our agenda.
Chair
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Chair - WG Legal and Home Affairs
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