The European Commission presented a new package of measures on Wednesday 21 December to tackle the financing of terrorism by, for example, better tracking financial flows and making it easier to have a decisions by member states to confiscate the assets of terrorist groups recognised throughout the EU.
The initiatives, set out by Commissioners Dimitris Avramopoulos, Vera Jourova and Julian King, were planned before the terrorist attack in Berlin two days previously and also apply to...