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FRANCE: NEW INTELLIGENCE BILL POSES THREAT TO JOURNALISTS

A bill giving France’s intelligence services new powers to monitor communications, which Prime Minister Manuel Valls submitted to the council of ministers last week, poses a grave new threat to the confidentiality of journalists’ sources, according to Reporters Without Borders. Unveiled on 19 March, the bill provides for intelligence gathering on an extremely varied range of grounds that include the “prevention of terrorism” and ensuring that “France (…) carries out its European obligations.”