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European intelligence database seen aiding fight against suspected militants

09 August 2016

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"A European counter-terrorism intelligence database designed to generate greater intelligence sharing among allies to avert deadly Islamist attacks has gone online after overcoming traditional reluctance by spy agencies to sharing information.....

The database enables European intelligence agencies to share real-time information about suspected Islamist militants collected by members of the Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG), which groups all 28 European Union countries, Switzerland and Norway."

See: European intelligence database seen aiding fight against suspected militants (Reuters, link)

Background: NOTE from: United Kingdom and French delegations Subject: Data and Information Sharing (pdf)

"Member States’ security services already work closely together to combat the terrorist threat and the Members of the CTG committed in 2015 to going further still in enhancing their cooperation. In this regard we are fully supportive of the ground-breaking CTG initiative to establish a multilateral information exchange platform."

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