[FYI] EU set to agree sweeping counter-terror policies
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EU set to agree sweeping counter-terror policies
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday March 25, 2004
The Guardian
Police, security and intelligence agencies across Europe will have
authority to hold and exchange data on individuals - and detain them -
under a draft declaration on combating terrorism to be agreed by EU
leaders meeting in Brussels today.
Under the plans, which will be approved by the EU summit in Brussels,
officials would win sweeping powers to arrest and question
individuals on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. The summit
opens two weeks after the Madrid train bombings injected new urgency
into remedying glaring deficiencies in Europe's anti-terrorist
defences.
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