Europe's ministers have made a deal on the creation of a new EU agency to overlook how member states' respect the fundamental rights of citizens but ruled against it having the power to look into prisoner treatment or extraordinary renditions.
The EU fundamental rights agency - to be formally adopted on Tuesday (5 December) after months of wrangling – will be up and running according to its original time plan in January 2007.
It will be tasked to collect "objective, reliable and c...
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