Secret terms of coming EU repression

The Brussels Journal reports on a new committee deliberately far outside any democratic control, linked here. 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 […] The Treaty text, Article 61D on page 77 […] 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.