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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8083
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/justice

Crucial agenda for working meeting on Monday and Tuesday

Brussels, 31/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - A Belgian Presidency source has indicated that progress at the Council working group on Justice and Home Affairs on 5-6 November was crucial, if they were to keep to the schedule fixed by Member States in the war against terrorism. Experts will be discussing a new Presidency proposal for the European arrest warrant adding a precise list of crimes covered by Europol (drugs, terrorism, human trafficking, etc). Work is continuing into the adoption of a common definition of terrorism with a distinction being made between specific terrorist crimes (belonging to a terrorist group, etc) and "normal" crimes committed with terrorist intentions (murder, etc). Regarding the sensitive task consisting of drawing up a list of suspected terrorists and terrorist organisations in Europe, the work is geared towards adoption of several lists, on different forms of terrorism, it is learnt from European sources. "It seems that this is the only way to proceed in order to reach an agreement among the Fifteen", explain the same sources, specifying that, neither the number of lists nor their content have yet been decided. The Council working group on terrorism will be meeting again on 8 November to draw up the list.

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