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.
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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