Luxembourg, 04/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - After a lengthy debate, home ministers of the EU and of Schengen Area partner countries pledged, on Thursday 4 June, to pursue development of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II), a common police database containing biometric elements of identification. “We have come to the unanimous decision to continue the SIS II project with a number of milestones to be respected”, the Czech home minister, Martin Pecina, said during a...