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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9337
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha

Security in the EU to be one of Germany's targets - Beefing up Europol and cracking down on illegal immigration - Other priority areas

Brussels, 04/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - The new German Presidency of the EU is planning to put security at the top of its agenda. On Wednesday, Germany's interior minister, Wolfgang Schauble, said 'We want to help improve security in Europe. It will be a focal point of the German EU Presidency'. In this connection, one of the German Presidency's key priorities will be beefing up the status and powers of the European Police Office (Europol) to crack down on terrorism and organised crime....

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