On Tuesday 17 April, the European Commission presented new rules in Strasbourg aiming to make it harder to acquire the precursors to explosives used by terrorists to fabricate the home-made bombs that have been "used in many attacks in Europe in recent years", Commissioners Dimitris Avramoupoulos (Internal Affairs) and Julian King (Security) stated at a press conference.
In particular, the Commission proposed strengthening the current rules by firstly banning new chemical substances, by...