[FYI] EU set to agree sweeping counter-terror policies

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,1177349,00.html?=rss>

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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