The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is a committee of the European Parliament that is responsible for protecting

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and

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, as listed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Its current chair, elected on 10 July 2019, is

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, member of the S&D political group.

Responsibilities

Specifically, the committee deals with

data protection Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. It is also known as data pr ...

issues; asylum, migration, and "integrated management of the common borders"; and the EU approach to criminal law", including police and judicial cooperation and

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

, all while ensuring that the principles of

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and proportionality are respected. Additionally, it oversees several agencies of the European Union, including the

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and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Europol, Eurojust, the European Police College (Cepol), the

European Public Prosecutor The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) is an independent body of the European Union (EU) with juridical personality, established under the Treaty of Lisbon between 22 of the 27 states of the EU following the method of enhanced cooperati ...

’s Office and other such agencies. However, its purview does not include gender-based discrimination, which is overseen by the

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, and

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, which is overseen by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Controversy

Udo Voigt, the former leader of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) who has praised

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, joined the committee as a non-attached member in July 2014, sparking outrage from European Parliament President Martin Schulz, the European Jewish Congress, and the European Network Against Racism, among others.

Jan Philipp Albrecht Jan Philipp Albrecht (born 20 December 1982) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of The Greens-European Free Alliance. From 2018 to 2022, he has been serving as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature a ...

, a German

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member and vice chair of the committee, expressed doubt about Voigt's ability to significantly influence the legislative process, but he did concede that "his presence could lead the public to question the European Parliament".

References

External links

Official webpage

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Human rights organisations based in Belgium {{EU-stub

Responsibilities

Controversy

See also

References

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