Main proposals of the report by the Future Group, Freedom, Security, Privacy - European Home Affairs in an Open World :
• The EU should set up a network of anti-terrorism centres to share intelligence gathered by secret service agencies and police forces.
• EU states need to use the internet more effectively to combat the radicalisation of young people by targeting groups with a positive message. EU states need to make up their mind by 2014 whether to create a Euro-Atlantic area of co-operation in the field of justice and anti-terrorism policy.
• More screening of freight transport and background checks on key transport workers are required to protect citizens from a possible nuclear attack.
• Police need to share more information with their EU colleagues and to use new security technologies more effectively to combat crime and terrorism.
• Border controls need to be strengthened and the EU border agency Frontex needs to be given enough resources to do its job effectively
(The full report can be see on: www.irishtimes.com/indepth)
What is the Future Group report?
The report makes a series of recommendations on how EU policy in the field of immigration and anti-terrorism should develop between 2010 and 2014.
It was drawn up by the Future Group, which included the interior ministers from Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, France, the Czech Republic and Sweden.
The European justice commissioner and the president of the European Parliament's civil liberties also sat on the group, which included an observer from Britain.