Brussels, 14/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 13 January, the civil liberties committee at the European Parliament (LIBE) adopted the report by Louis Michel (ALDE, Belgium) on fundamental rights in the EU (in 2012). The committee mainly calls on the Commission to set in place a new monitoring and objective assessment system of member states and of their compliance with accession criteria, the so-called Copenhagen criteria. This new “Copenhagen mechanism” would serve to set indicators,...