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EU: New European police centre to fight terrorism

24 January 2016

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"A new European counter-terrorism centre opening this month will improve information-sharing among national police forces whose performance is under scrutiny after the jihadist attacks in Paris in November, the director of Europol has told AFP.

"It establishes for the first time in Europe a dedicated operation centre," Britain's Rob Wainwright said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."

See the article: New European police centre to fight terrorism (The Local, link)

The centre will be officially launched at the informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Amsterdam today and tomorrow (25 and 26 January), where national ministers will again discuss how to increase the sharing of information and intelligence on counter-terrorism amongst national law enforcement authorities.

More information on the new body: The European Counter-Terrorism Centre: proposed powers and information systems (Statewatch News Online, December 2015) and: Europol's press release: Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre strengthens the EU’s response to terror (pdf)

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