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Some member states unconvinced that threat level has increased. The EU and the United States have held talks on security in the wake of the US terror alert issued this week...

Malmström says new measures could hurt mobility. The European Commission said today (6 August) that it “very much” regretted a decision by the US to impose a $14...

How Janet Napolitano, the US head of homeland security, can improve EU-US relations. Aside from the Pentagon, no branch of the US government is more associated with the...

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...

Official says the US will not prohibit businesses; websites charge €150 to fill out free forms. The United States is not planning to close down websites that charge...

Commission says it is satisfied that electronic pre-entry form does not amount to a visa. EU citizens will from next week have to make a major change in their preparations...

US extends waiver to three central European and three Baltic states. Six additional EU countries will be added to the US visa-waiver programme “in about a month”,...

Electronic travel permits form part of reform of visa-waiver programme. The US is to begin a pilot scheme on 1 August for demanding personal data prior to departure from...

The EU is investigating whether electronic form to be signed before entry into the US constitutes a de facto visa.

Report likely in July on an issue that potentially compounds difficulties in current EU-US visa talks. The European Commission is insisting that it has still not come to...

Scheme could divert officials from other customs operations. Europe's shipping and ports industry  is anxiously awaiting the  verdict of the United States on the...

European Commission mandated to negotiate with Washington after Czechs back down EU interior ministers have agreed on what powers to give to the European Commission to...

Judith Crosbie examines EU efforts to improve co-operation in the face of common security risks. Criminals, terrorists, diseases or forest fires do not respect national...

The EU has been aware for more than a year that the US was profiling European citizens based on the risk they posed of being terrorists, Finland's minister for European...

The European Commission will next week (12 December) propose identifying and protecting specific energy, transport, water and telecommunications sites in Europe vital to the...

This week the EU's top security officials will fly to Washington, DC for what has become an annual EU-US ministerial meeting to discuss justice issues. Michael Chertoff, the...

The imaginative ways that terrorists have come up with to kill people in recent years have alarmed governments worldwide as they try to protect the public. But authorities...

Ever since public and private bodies began storing personal data there has been a tension between what information should be kept on file and privacy concerns about what...

The EU is on course for a transatlantic row about privacy over demands by the US for more information on European airline passengers to be submitted at an earlier stage with...

EU governments will examine how national- security information can be shared as part of efforts to thwart terrorist attacks. In June last year, the Union's heads of state...