5 EU Countries Agree to Set Up Paramilitary Police Force
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Five European Union countries have signed an agreement creating an EU paramilitary force to assist in international peacekeeping missions.
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Dutch police raided sites across the Netherlands and arrested 37 people suspected of training to become paramilitary members of the Kurdistan Workers&#39; Party, a group labeled a terrorist movement in the European Union.
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Police authorities have urged the public to back government plans to sign the European Union's controversial Schengen/Dublin accord on cross-border crime and asylum.
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The European Union's 25 nations must develop a common foreign policy and build a &quot;credible&quot; military force if Europe &quot;is to be taken seriously,&quot; Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in an interview.
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European Union ministers are meeting in Luxembourg to discuss a five-year plan for co-ordinating policies on asylum, immigration and cross-border security.
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European Union leaders agreed on Friday to send administrators and police to Kosovo ahead of an expected declaration of independence from Serbia.
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The drive by the EU to become a military force will take a big step forward today when all 25 nations agree to create battle groups of elite troops able to reach trouble spots such as Darfur within 15 days.
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EU defence chiefs agree to create rapid-reaction battle groups for deployment in international hot spots.
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European Union experts will from next month start training police forces across Afghanistan, including southern provinces which have borne the brunt of insurgent violence, EU officials said on Tuesday.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Five European Union defence ministers signed an agreement Friday to set up a law-enforcement group to provide support for international peacekeeping missions.
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The move brings the European Union's total promises of support to 1.5bn once contributions from the 25 national governments are included.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.
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Interior ministers from five leading European Union countries  gathered here to try to smooth out differences over how to tackle illegal immigration and strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
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EU ministers agree to set up five pilot reception centres in Africa to process asylum applications.
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PARIS, Oct 26 (IPS) - Several European governments are arming their  police forces with a new range of "non-lethal weapons" to  put down protests against globalisation, and among immigrants.
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Gibraltar's exclusion from the European Border's Agency was agreed yesterday. The decision was taken at the Corep meeting of Ambassadors of the 25 EU states yesterday.
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European foreign ministers from 10 Mediterranean countries are seeking to create an international force to police the Palestinian territories, the Slovenian foreign ministry said Monday.