Secrecy watchdog Statewatch announced this week that it would lodge five complaints

Date: 28/11/1996

with EU Ombudsman Jacob Södermann over the Council of Ministers' refusal to make public documents relating to meetings of justice and home affairs ministers. Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch Bulletin, said: “This is not just a struggle against secrecy. It is about the kind of democracy we have in the EU.”