Poisoned-spy case tests Europe's cross-border cooperation
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The Christian Science Monitor - British police have been pounding Moscow pavement for over a week. Russian detectives are headed for London, while a Scotland Yard liaison arrived Monday in Hamburg. On Tuesday, Interpol got into the act.
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Europe and the United States should  boost information exchanges on terrorists, the EU's top justice  official said on Friday ahead of President Bush's visit to  Europe next month.
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LONDON -- Before Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent fatally poisoned in London last year, sought asylum in Britain, he first tried to flee to the United States, according to a new book that also offers fresh details of his uneasy life and relationship with the former KGB ...
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More than Â£1m of illegal medicines and veterinary drugs have been seized in a cross-border operation. The authorities said they have helped to smash a criminal ring involved in the manufacture and distribution of illegal antibiotics for use on farms.
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LONDON -- The wife of a former KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's body, friends and officials said yesterday.
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An Italian academic who met the poisoned  former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko the day he became ill  from radiation is under police protection in London and  undergoing medical tests, a legal source said on Tuesday.
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European countries were on the trail of militants linked to the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for months before the murder, but lacked
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European Union states have started  sharing monitoring of militant Web sites, including sites  linked to al-Qaeda, a draft statement agreed by the bloc&#39;s  ambassadors on Wednesday shows.
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European council dilutes data proposals to taste European privacy wonks have become alarmed over the degeneration of policy talks on the protection of people who become the subject of police database cross-border pollinations.â¦
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A yearlong European parliamentary investigation into CIA flights transporting terror suspects to secret prisons has yielded a report singling out Britain, Germany and other European heavyweights as colluding with the U.S. secret detention program in an apparent breach of human rights standards.
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Countries that are hackers' targets should work together, not blame each other, officials say.
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European Union states have started  sharing monitoring of militant Web sites, including sites  linked to al-Qaeda, a draft statement agreed by the bloc's  ambassadors on Wednesday shows.
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(InfoWorld) - European data-protection officials are broadening their investigation into the alleged transfer of personal banking details by the Swift banking cooperative in Belgium to U.S. authorities, the European Commission said Wednesday.Separately, the Belgian data-protection authority is expected to conclude its report into the affair in the coming weeks. Unlike the European officials, the Belgian authorities could impose sanctions on Swift, a banking industry payment-transfer organization."Recognising the seriousness of the questions that have been raised, the working party agreed to continue fact-finding and conduct further analysis based on all relevant factual and legal elements," the Commission said in a statement, referring to a working party of data-protection officials from around the European Union. The group met in Brussels Tuesday and Wednesday."The working party's priority is to safeguard European data protection rights," the Commission said.The officials will conclude their investigation in November at their next meeting, the Commission said. If they find that European data protection laws have been violated they could propose that the Commission take legal action against Belgium for failing to uphold Union-wide laws.In the statement, the Commission said the officials expressed "immediate concerns about the lack of transparency" surrounding the transfers, which began in secret shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.The transfers, which came to light in newspaper reports in June this year, have raised fears that Swift has abused European citizensâ privacy. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies allegedly demanded the information in order to trace terrorist financing activity.The so-called Swift affair comes at a time of heightened tension between Europe and the U.S. over how to balance counter-terrorism needs and preserve citizens' civil liberties. Last month U.S. President George Bush admitted that terrorism suspects have been secretly detained in Europe, sparking an angry outcry among European civil liberties groups, politicians and newspapers.
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Many EU countries were aware of secret CIA jails and transfers of terror suspects, a report by MEPs says.
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The European Commission is to draw up plans to bolster co-operation in the fight against terror.
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SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands Attorney General John Ashcroft and European Union officials have agreed to improve the flow of intelligence to help track down terrorists and prevent attacks.
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The case of a suspected agent raises questions about security at the U.S.-Canada border and what the alleged agent was after in the first place