Brussels 07/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - According to information from AFP, G6 home affairs ministers from Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Poland, as well as senior officials from the US, met on Friday 4 February in Krakow, Poland, to discuss cooperation to prevent terrorist and cyber attacks. According to the official press statement published at the end of this meeting held behind closed doors: “Ministers exchanged views and shared experience obtained in the field of action, which will help governments ensure information technology security”. According to this press statement, they also tackled the issue of “communication with the population in terrorist threat situations”. The G6 has existed since 2003 and is an informal group of the six biggest countries in the EU. The US was represented in Krakow by Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute. On the subject of terrorism, a French counter-espionage study published on Monday 7 February, in the French newspaper Le Figaro, indicated that increasing numbers of Europeans were training with Al-Qaida in the Pakistani-Afghani border zone, with a view to carrying out acts of terrorism. This document reveals that among the hundred or so Europeans involved, 14 of them include French nationals. (S.P./transl.fl)