Europe 'lags behind' US on terror
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Europe doesn't match the US in its response to global terrorism, Nato's secretary general warns.
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The United States and the European Union sought Thursday to coordinate action against a growing problem of terrorist sympathizers using charities and cash couriers as covers to fund violence.
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After three terrorism cases in less than two years, intelligence officials say Denmark is an important piece of the battle against Islamic terrorism in Europe.
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European nations need to think more seriously about how terrorism affects them, even in such far-off places as Afghanistan, NATO's secretary-general said Thursday.
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Despite tensions in Britain over last weekend&#39;s failed bomb plots, the European Union seems in no hurry to appoint a new &quot;anti-terror&quot; chief and even appears to doubt whether one is needed.
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Washington's close ally Britain has emerged as Europe's target of choice for Islamist extremists and the weak link in the war against terrorism, with its poorly integrated and disaffected Muslim minority.
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The United States, often criticized  for not working with its allies, has for the past two years  been quietly consulting a group of senior military officers  from more than 20 countries, including Europe and the Arab  world, for advice on combating terrorism.
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WASHINGTON A second term for George W. Bush is hardly the outcome Europe desired. But neither Europe nor America can afford four more years of strain.
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President Bush isn't the only world leader facing doubts about his handling of the war on terror. People in Australia, Italy and Britain also harbor reservations about how well their nation's leaders are holding terrorists at bay.
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US, Pakistan step up efforts to address the militant haven tied to global terror.
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The United States and Europe are  drifting further apart on security issues and the use of force  in the aftermath of the Iraq war, a major transatlantic opinion  survey released on Thursday showed.
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GEORGE Bush&#39;s closest allies in Europe greeted his re-election as a boost to the war on Islamic extremism but most European leaders barely managed to conceal the sense of disappointment they shared with most of the public across the continent.
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Although Britain is the US' closest ally in Europe, Britons do not think much of President George Bush, an AP poll in Europe and selected countries of the world has found.
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The threat of a terrorist attack on the United States still exists, but counterterrorism officials say there is a conspicuous lack of intelligence "chatter" being picked up.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Parliament has delayed a vote on how to react to the U.S.' growing appetite for personal information about European citizens, in order to intensify its opposition. The delay follows a debate Wednesday evening in which the two other European Union lawmaking institutions both hardened their positions on the sensitive issue. The groups are drawing up a strategy for how toÂ renegotiate an agreement, over which they have been divided, with the U.S. over theÂ transfer of European air passenger data. The Parliament opposed the original agreement reached in 2004 to share the data -- 34 facts about every European entering or transiting through America by air, including credit card details and information about how and where a plane ticket was purchased. Even though the European Commission -- the E.U.'s executive branch -- and national governments in the 27 E.U. countries support strict European data protection laws, they negotiated an exemption from the rules in order to allow the U.S. to better protect itself from potential terrorist attacks. The European Parliament took the Commission and the Council of Ministers to the European Court of Justice over the passenger data agreement and forced a re-drafting of the law late last year. This agreement expires at the end of July and the E.U. will soon have to renegotiate the deal. While the Parliament is unlikely now to call for the complete scrapping of the agreement, it may well demand a shorter list of categories of data to be handed over. It may also demand that only U.S. immigration officials be granted access to the information. In a debate at the European Parliament Wednesday, Germanyâs deputy foreign minister, Guenther Gloser warned that negotiations with the U.S. will be âtortuous.â Germany holds the six-month rotating presidency of the 27-nation bloc. The European commissioner in charge of justice and home affairs issues, Franco Frattini told Parliamentarians that he has demanded an explanation from his counterparts in Washington D.C. about an apparent misuse of Europeansâ data that flouts both the original passenger rights' agreement as well as its replacement agreed last year. Frattini's concerns focus on the U.S. Automated Targeting System, which has been assessing millions of people since 2002. Some members of the U.S. Congress and privacy advocates believe the program is even illegal under the more lax U.S. data protection laws. "The right to privacy for me is nonnegotiable. It has to be respected," Frattini told the parliamentarians. Frattini's and Gloserâs speeches took many members of the Parliament by surprise, according to one Parliament official actively involved in civil liberties issues. "The MEPs were due to vote on an agreed position regarding the new round of negotiations with the U.S. today, but they have agreed to postpone the vote until the next plenary session in Strasbourg," she said, asking not to be named. The next plenary session is Feb. 12-15. "There is a mixture of joy and skepticism among the parliamentarians after hearing the strong language expressed in defense of Europeans rights to privacy," she said. "It would seem that the Commission and the Council of Ministers are both coming around to the Parliament's way of thinking on this urgent issue." The text is likely to take an even stronger line as a result of the delay, she said. The U.S. has threatened to fine airlines that fail to hand over the records, and to strip them of their landing rights in the U.S. Without any agreement, the airlines will be put in a difficult position: punished if they don't hand over the information, or sued for breaching European data protection laws if they do.
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More Europeans see the United States as a threat to global stability than Iran and North Korea combined, according to a poll published Monday.
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The head of NATO said there was a critical "perception gap" between Europe and the U.S. on the subject of global terror.