During the JHA Council, the Home Affairs Ministers brought their solemn support to Spain in its fight against Basque terrorism by ETA. "The terrorist acts by ETA are not only directed against the Spanish government and people, but against all Europeans", stated the German Minister Otto Schilly during a press conference held in the company of his Spanish, British Italian, Greek, Belgian and Portuguese counterparts, as well as Commissioner Antonio Vitorino. "The Freedom, Security and Justice Area that we are building is based upon the same democratic values and implies a ceaseless fight against terrorism, whatever its shape, its reasons and the place it occurred", confirmed the Belgian Antoine Duquesne when asserting that the EU 15 should, from now on, "provide themselves with the means to react effectively" to the terrorist threat. Commissioner Antonio Vitorino added that, in the light of the agreement concluded on Wednesday, by the Italian and Spanish Prime Ministers Amato and Anzar with regards to the mutual recognition of arrest warrants and the acceleration of extradition procedures, the Commission will soon present a "legal mechanism enabling to bring a solution at the European level to the problem of terrorism". This "common legal framework" will concern cases of "serious crime, including terrorism", and will notably cover the development of European arrest warrants as well as accelerated extradition procedures. See following page for other results of the Justice/Home Affairs Council.