Paris to hold emergency summit of European Ministers
European and American Home Affairs Ministers will assemble in Paris on Sunday 11 January, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, for an emergency meeting on counter-terrorism measures. EURACTIV...
View ArticleDonald Tusk urges Parliament to accept European PNR
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has implored MEPs to accept the creation of a single, shared data base of personal information on air passengers arriving in, or leaving, the EU....
View ArticleParliament resists pressure on passenger data ahead of EU summit
Green and Liberal MEPs are resisting the proposal for a pan-European Passenger Name Records (PNR) database in the face of mounting political pressure before a summit this week in which heads of state...
View ArticleTimmermans urges EU nations to step up cooperation against terrorism
During a visit to Paris on Tuesday (17 February), European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans told EU member states to improve cooperation on security, using the systems already in place....
View ArticleAfter TV5, Paris fears new cyberattacks on media
The French government has called on media to be “vigilant” after the cyberattack claimed by jihadists, which blocked French international channel TV5Monde for several hours, adding that similar attacks...
View ArticleMinisters reject Commission’s immigrant quota proposal
Meeting in Luxembourg yesterday (16 June), EU interior ministers rejected a plan by the European Commission to distribute 40,000 immigrants from Italy and Greece to the other member countries,...
View ArticleIllegal immigrants face eviction without court order under new UK law
Immigrants living in Britain illegally will face abrupt eviction from rental properties under new laws designed to make Britain a tougher place to live in, the government will announce as it redoubles...
View ArticleEU offers to help France, UK face Calais migrant crisis
Brussels said on Tuesday (4 August) it was ready to help France and Britain deal with the migrant crisis at the Channel Tunnel, as police on both sides braced for new attempts at the crossing.
View ArticleFrance and Britain to defuse Calais migrant crisis
France and Britain are to sign a deal today (20 August) aimed at preventing undocumented migrants entering the Channel Tunnel, while stepping up joint police operations against the people-smugglers who...
View ArticleMerkel and Hollande to press EU to move faster on asylum policy
Germany and France will press the European Union to move faster and with more unity to deal with the worsening refugee crisis, amid complaints from Germany that it is shouldering too big a burden.
View ArticleFrance contemplates border controls as rightists pillory Schengen
The French government may reintroduce border controls in an attempt to pacify critics of the Schengen area. EURACTIV France reports.
View ArticleAvramopoulos oversees first relocation of asylum seekers
Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos will travel to Italy today (9 October), to oversee the first-ever relocation of asylum-seekers, from Lampedusa to Sweden, where they will...
View ArticleFrance will impose border controls for climate talks
The French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve has announced that France will re-establish border controls during the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21), which takes place from 30 November to 11...
View ArticleFrance launches airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria
French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday (15 November) as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people.
View ArticleCouncil pushes for broad collection of flight passenger data after Paris attacks
Justice and Home Affairs ministers from EU member states are meeting today (20 November) in Brussels to discuss new security measures following the terrorist attacks in Paris last weekend that left 129...
View ArticleParis attacks show flawed use of Schengen rules, ministers confess
A ‘mea culpa’ emerged from the emergency meeting on security matters on Friday (20 November), as EU member states acknowledged they did not use all the tools at their disposal to address the terrorist...
View ArticleFrance’s national emergency threatens to smother climate activism
The arrival of 147 heads of state in Paris on Sunday will take place under a draconian security regime. With many NGO demonstrations cancelled, some plan to turn to civil disobedience to make their...
View ArticleGerman-bought weapons potentially used in Paris attacks
Arrests have been made in Berlin in relation to a planned attack, and the weapons used in the Paris attacks are thought to have been bought in Germany. EURACTIV Germany reports.
View ArticleMini-Schengen not an option, for now
A majority of EU countries seem to be hostile to the idea of a "mini-Schengen", capable of better controlling its common borders, which was floated by the Netherlands at the end of last year.
View ArticleFrance to bulldoze migrant ‘jungle’ near Calais
A French judge yesterday (25 February) upheld a government plan to partially demolish a shanty town near the port of Calais for migrants trying to reach the United Kingdom, an official spokesman said.
View ArticlePolice officers wounded in Brussels shooting
Shots were heard in the area of a police operation in Brussels some two hours after a raid linked to November's Paris attacks began Tuesday (15 March).
View ArticleSix people arrested in Brussels after attacks, one in Paris
Six people were arrested yesterday (24 March) in a series of police raids in Brussels, federal prosecutors said, two days after jihadist attacks in the Belgian capital left 31 dead.
View ArticleHypocrisy at the heart of the PNR debate
EU member states still refuse to share information on air passengers, fearing the data could fall into the wrong hands. France is pushing for the proposal’s adoption with one hand, while watering it...
View ArticleCommission calls for closer cooperation to combat foreign fighters
Poor information sharing between security services is one of the great shortcomings of European cooperation. About 5,000 Europeans are thought to have joined extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, but...
View ArticleCazeneuve: Over 100 arrested on terror charges in France this year
France has arrested 101 people since the start of the year over "direct links to terrorism", Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in an interview to be published later today (13 May), exactly six...
View ArticleFrance struck on its national day by horrific terrorist attack
A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 80 in what President François Hollande today (15 July) called a "terrorist" attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day...
View ArticleCazeneuve: Three held in France in August for planning attacks
Seven people with links to terrorist networks, at least three of whom were planning attacks, have been arrested in France this month, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday (23 August).
View ArticleEU backs Franco-German bid for access to encrypted messages
France and Germany want to compel operators of mobile messaging services to provide access to encrypted content to terrorism investigations, after a series of deadly attacks in both countries.
View ArticleBrussels prepares EU-wide scheme for visa-free travel authorisation
The European Commission is preparing a proposal inspired by France and Germany to introduce a “European ESTA” modelled on a US scheme that requires international travellers who do not need a visa to...
View ArticleFrance arrests seven people suspected of planning terror attack
France said yesterday (21 November) it had foiled a possible militant attack after detaining seven people, including some who had been in the ranks of Islamic State in Syria.
View ArticleCommission battles hostile firearms lobby
One year and hundreds of hours of meetings after the Paris attacks, the EU is still struggling to find common ground on the regulation of firearms. Some hunters and sport shooters have flatly rejected...
View ArticleCazeneuve steps up to ‘protect’ France
France's former Minister for the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve has taken over from Manuel Valls as head of the government, which he will lead for the last five months of François Hollande’s mandate....
View ArticleFrance introduces card system to tackle posted worker fraud
France has begun issuing professional cards to construction workers in a scheme that will become compulsory this year. The objective is to combat illegal employment and the fraudulent posting of...
View ArticleFrench PM says Britain must agree divorce terms before trade deal
Britain must discuss the terms of its divorce from the EU before talks on any future trade agreement can start, French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned on Monday (6 February).
View ArticleFrench election turns ugly as political attacks mount
Journalists accused of bias. Judges said to be taking orders from the president. The country in a state of "near civil war".
View ArticleFrench PM visits Athens to offer support on bailout talks
French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, accompanied by Finance Minister Michel Sapin and Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir, will visit Greece today (3 March), aiming to offer...
View ArticleFrench Socialist Party in disarray after joining new Left alliance
France's Socialist Party has joined the New Popular Ecological and Social Union formed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise ahead of the legislative elections in June but the news has not been...
View ArticleFrench left demands resignations over police response to riots
French opposition leaders have called for the resignation of the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and police chief Frédéric Veaux in a row over the police's heavy-handed response to the riots that...
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