Speaking at a European Parliament hearing in Brussels on 30 March, Commission counter-terrorism director Olivier Luyckx [a distant relative of Asterix?] envisaged a new entity that would pull together existing security agencies Cepol, Cosi [fan tutti?], Eurojust, Europol and Frontex under EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove [it up your jumper].Friends, can you indeed hold back your laughter? It'll happen, of course. More parasites - it's what the EU is all about.
"There is new room for action at EU level," said Kerchove. "This is how I see the change: to set up a system that would mirror the one that is being set up for monitoring external crises, a one-stop shop for information-sharing."
31 March 2011
Risum teneatis, amici?
EU Observer reports, apparently straight-faced, that the European Commission wants to create a new EU internal security body on the model of Catherine Ashton's European External Action Service (EEAS), which has been such a brilliant success at creating new jobs for eurocrats.
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Perhaps they should correlate with Homeland Security in the US which duplicates all the efforts everyone else in the security field in America is doing - without either drawing any conclusions or gaining any new ideas.
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