The EU had considered setting up a joint "framework" with the US on standards for renditions of terror suspects, according to a confidential protocol of an EU-US meeting in May seen by EUobserver.
The records of a meeting between EU and US officials on 3 May this year, used as evidence by the European Parliament's temporary committee on alleged illegal CIA activities in a new report, reveal a strong will in particular by the Austrian EU presidency at the time to end differences with Wa...
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