Terrorism related content 

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...

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...

The profiling of air travellers is unlikely to counter terrorism. To date, the policy responses to the foiled terrorist attack over Detroit have been marked more by bravado...

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...

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....

Stopping ethnic profiling and helping prevent terrorism. One of the writers of this letter has recently been detained at two airports – Paris-Charles De Gaulle and...

Ethnic or religious profiling has increased sharply since 2001 but has failed to lead to any conviction for terrorism. The EU should outlaw the police practice of stopping...

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...

Resistance to EU-level co-ordination has watered down new rules on infrastructure protection. New rules came into force this month on how member states should protect...

Court that ruled that Iranian opposition group was wrongly included on terrorist list refuses to say when it should be taken off it. The European Court of First Instance...

The EU needs to fight against the hate speech broadcast on the Egyptian satellite channel Nilesat. On 16 December, the EU-Egypt Association Committee met for the first time....