How this archive quotes its sources, what you may do with it in turn, and the limits of what it warrants — with the limits of the disclaimers stated too.
This page is published in English. The English text is the authoritative version.
St.Michel is a documentation archive. It records what governments, security services, courts, EU bodies and the movements themselves have published, quotes those documents in extract, and links to them. It is not an opinion blog and it is not advice: nothing here is legal, security, policy or investment advice, and nothing here substitutes for reading the primary document, which is always one click away.
It is a publication, not a service. There is no account to open, nothing to buy, no submission route, no correspondence and no contract between you and the publisher. These terms are the conditions on which the material is published, not a bargain you are asked to strike.
Quotation is the central activity of this site, so the position is set out in full.
The archive quotes organisations and official documents: government reviews, security-service and public-agency reports, formally constituted commissions of inquiry, court judgments, EU-body publications, national legislation, and the movements' own published charters and platforms. It does not quote private individuals about their private lives, does not compile material about private persons, and names an individual only where a qualifying primary source names them in a public or official capacity — and then only for what that source says.
The quotation exception: Article 5(3)(d) of Directive 2001/29/EC, which permits quotation for purposes such as criticism or review, provided the work has already been lawfully made available to the public, the source and the author's name are indicated, the use accords with fair practice, and it does not exceed what the specific purpose requires — conditions the source-card format above is built to satisfy — together with Article 5(3)(c) on reporting current events, and the national equivalents: sections 30(1), 30(1ZA) and 30(2) of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; article L.122-5, 3° a) of the French Code de la propriété intellectuelle; § 51 UrhG in Germany; article 32 of the Spanish Ley de Propiedad Intelectual; article 70 of Italian law 633/1941.
Official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature fall outside copyright protection in many states under Article 2(4) of the Berne Convention, and expressly so in Germany under § 5 UrhG.
United Kingdom government material is Crown copyright (section 163 CDPA 1988). Much of it, including material published on GOV.UK, is made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits copying, publishing and adapting the information provided the source is acknowledged — which this archive does on every entry.
EU material is generally reusable with acknowledgement of source, the baseline being Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents. Each EU body's own copyright notice governs its own publications, and the archive follows whichever notice attaches to the document it quotes.
The movements' own texts are quoted as documentation, not endorsement, and always critically and in context — the condition on which European legal systems permit it, and which the German provisions on reporting, scholarship and education (§ 86(4) and § 86a(3) StGB) recognise expressly. No emblem, insignia, flag or propaganda imagery of any documented organisation is reproduced anywhere on this site. The archive quotes dated text and links it.
No primary document is mirrored on this domain. Every source entry points at the publisher's own copy, at the publisher's own address, so that you read the document from the institution that issued it and can see for yourself that nothing has been altered. Two consequences are stated honestly: the archive cannot serve you a document that its publisher withdraws, and links do break over time.
Rights holders: because nothing is rehosted, a rights question about a primary document is a question for the institution that publishes it. As to material on this domain, this site operates no contact channel — see the legal notice — and the hosting provider named there is the party that can be reached and that has its own obligations under the Digital Services Act.
Three conditions, which exist to protect the reader rather than the publisher:
Republishing whole pages or the register in bulk is not covered by this permission. The reason is not proprietary: a mirrored copy goes stale, corrections do not propagate to it, and a stale copy of an archive is a liability for its readers and for everyone named in it.
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Text and data mining, including for machine learning, is permitted on the archive's own text, on the conditions above. No reservation of rights under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 is made. An archive that wants to be the citable record of this subject has no interest in being unreadable to the systems people now ask questions of. This permission covers only St.Michel's own text; rights in quoted material remain with their holders.
The archive's own text, and its selection and arrangement of sources, are © 2026 St.Michel.
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What this exclusion does not, and cannot, do — stated because a disclaimer that overstates itself is worth less than one that does not:
This archive documents an ideology and its organisations, and has an obvious potential for misuse. The following are stated because of that, not as boilerplate:
The publisher has no enforcement power over how a reader behaves and does not pretend to have any. What it has, and will use, is the ability to state publicly and specifically that a given use misrepresents this archive.
Outbound links go to the institutions that issued the documents. The publisher has no control over those sites, does not adopt their content, and is not responsible for it. A link is never an endorsement of everything the linked institution says or does — this archive links to security-service reports and to a court judgment that cuts against one of them, on the same pages, deliberately. Once you follow a link, that site's own terms and privacy rules apply to you.
Stated plainly rather than with a forum-selection clause that would not bind you: there is no contract here, the publisher imposes no choice of law or court on readers, and you are not asked to give up any right you hold where you live. Mandatory law in your country of residence continues to apply to you and to this publication. Where this archive addresses a national public, the publisher accepts that that country's press, media and data protection rules may apply to it; the position on publisher identification in those jurisdictions is set out honestly in the legal notice rather than disclaimed here.
These terms may change as the archive grows. Substantive changes are dated in the record at accuracy and corrections, so that the version history of this page is auditable rather than silent.
Version 2.0 — published and last reviewed 14 August 2026.
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