EU Council of the European Union: Draft Conclusions

See: Foreign fighters: follow-up on the Conclusions of the European Council of 30 August 2014 (LIMITE doc no: 13416-14, 26-9-14, pdf): In response to the recent UN Resolution (2178-2014) on 24 September which calls on members of the UN to reinforce their engagement against terrorism, by, inter alia, making it a criminal offense to travel abroad for terrorist purposes. It proposes increased use of SIS II with more “systematic checks” to detect people leaving and returning from Syria: “the Council could agree that Member States will undertake systematic checks of the relevant databases without changing the legislation” and “invalidate travel documents” plus the swift introduction of EU-PNR. Position developed by a meeting in Milan attended by Italian Council Presidency: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Netherlands and UK.