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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11317

20 May 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 25
COUNCIL OF EUROPE / (ae) terrorism
New foreign fighters protocol to COE anti-terrorism convention

Strasbourg, 19/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - The Council of Europe's (COE) Committee of Ministers adopted the first raft of legally binding international standards, in Brussels on 19 May, which are intended to respond to the issue of “foreign terrorist fighters”. There are now nearly 5,000 European citizens who have left or are leaving to join the ranks of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

Laid out in an additional protocol to the COE's convention on the prevention of terrorism, which...

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