Counter-terrorism related content 

Home affairs commission says renegotiated agreement takes into account most of MEPs' demands. Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for home affairs, has praised...

Call for review of counter-terrorism measures scrapped by MEPs. A vote on a contentious report calling for a review of the EU's counter-terrorism policies was scrapped by...

Network to tackle radicalisation holds first meeting ten years after 9/11. The EU today launched a Europe-wide initiative that aims to help member states prevent...

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States did lasting damage to the European Union. In the initial aftermath of the attacks, the European Union...

Counter-terrorism officials from EU and Norway discuss attacks in Oslo. Norwegian counter-terrorism officials today (28 July) met their counterparts from the European Union...

EU seeks ways to counter political radicalisation; counter-terrorism officials to hold emergency meeting. The member states of the European Union are collectively to review...

European Commission offers support, member states assess implications for counter-terrorism. The European Union has begun a review of its counter-terrorism efforts in...

MEPs criticise plans to track terrorist finance, while setting up system could cost as much as €47m. Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for home affairs,...

Civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee wants to ensure that laws do not violate civil liberties. MEPs are asking for “a proper evaluation” of the European...

Dutch MEP wants to assess whether the measures introduced have been worth the cost. A leading member of the European Parliament is calling for a full review of the EU's...

Proposal outlines internal security strategy; home affairs commissioner wants ‘cybercrime centre' The European Union should do more to disrupt transnational criminal and...

MEPs can vote in favour of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme agreement with the US with full confidence that privacy will be protected. The European Parliament is...

The EU and the US hope to resume the sharing of bank data transfers as soon as possible. In the aftermath of al-Qaeda's attack on New York and Washington, DC, on 11...

The interior ministers of the European Union will next week endorse the start of negotiations between the European Commission and the United States on sharing information...

The EU's leaders approved the appointment of Vítor Constãncio, governor of Portugal's central bank, as the next vice-president of the European Central Bank. He will replace...

EU governments adopt stop-gap agreement to keep SWIFT data transfers operating. EU interior ministers have struck an interim deal to give the US access to banking data...

EU ministers to meet US's top security official Interior ministers of the EU's six biggest states will meet the US's top security official next week (5 November) and will...

EU governments should reveal the true extent of torture carried out on their soil. The ‘war on terror' long ago added ‘waterboarding' and ‘rendition' to the language...

Pakistan poses a threat to the European Union through the radicalisation of young Europeans, Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's top counter-terrorism official, has warned....

Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's anti-terrorism chief, says meeting to be held next month will focus on tackling terrorism. Pakistan recognises the threat it faces from...