Brussels, 28/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - Home ministers of EU member states almost managed, on Thursday 28 February in Brussels, to eliminate the main obstacles on a text that should allow the European Police Office (Europol) to be transformed into a Community agency, and the extension of Europol's mandate to cover all serious cross-border crime.
The Commission had presented a proposal for a Council decision in December 2006 with a view to replacing the 1995 convention on the creation of...