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01 May 1997

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EU-US cooperation: During the visit of President Clinton to Holland, he spoke with the Dutch minister of Justice Mrs Winnie Sorgdrager on the subject of closer cooperation between Europol and the FBI, focusing on the structural exchange of data and analyses on organized crime groups and financial transactions, eg: via the Internet. Also State Secretary Albright and the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Van Mierlo on behalf of the EU signed agreements on a system of information exchange on the export of precursors of chemical drugs such as XTC and on a customs exchange programme on international fraud (see also the report on the Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in this issue).

UK-France: Channel Tunnel "arrest": Henry Tuson, 23, who was born in Dunkirk, France, but left with his parents when 3 months old to live in the UK was "arrested" in the French "control zone" at Folkestone, Kent because he failed to undertake military service in France. He was taken, under armed guard, to the military barracks in Lille and released after 24 hours when French authorities declared he had failed the army medical examination. The Channel Tunnel Treaty of 1987 was supplemented in 1991 by the Sangatte Protocol which granted the French police jurisdiction over a passport control area. Times, 12.6.97; Guardian, 11.6.97; Evening Standard, 11.6.97.

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