EU director calls for new EU Intelligence Agency

By Michael Heaver

In a potentially worrying new development EU counter-terrorism director Oliver Luyckx has called for a new EU-wide intelligence agency, aimed at becoming a “one-stop shop for information sharing”.

The EU already has instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant that demand compulsory extradition, with Baroness Ashton acting as the EU’s High Representative for Security Policy and Foreign Affairs.

Luyckz’s demand for a new powerful EU terrorism division would see the creation of a massive new agency, forcing Britain’s MI5 and MI6 to share its information on citizens with this new EU counterpart that would see the merger of EU security bodies including Frontex, Europol, Eurojust and Cosi. It could become the largest and most powerful counter-terrorism unit ever since in Europe, with information on British citizens being easier to access by foreign security agencies than ever before.

Comments

[Stephen Hoffman]

Once again the excuse of counter-terrorism is being used to dstroy our freedoms. When will the politicians and faceless bureaucrats who make these authoritarian laws realise that the best way of fighting terrorism is to maintain the freedoms, which terrorists hate.

If we continue on this worrying path, we are giving in to terrorists' wishes.

[Stephen Hoffman]

*destroy

[Purlieu]

Don't we already have enough of these pan-European mega-bodies ?

[Richard Craven]

I agree with all the above.

[BillyBloggs]

The American NSA (Black helicopters beloved of conspiracy theorists) will be most unhappy with this one, as they don't trust anything European, come to think of it they don't trust Americans either.

[thomad]

no doubt the British "citizens" most worried are those who are active in terrorism, organised crime etc...

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The EU already has instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant that demand compulsory extradition.

[pandora uk]

Baroness Ashton acting as the EU’s High Representative for Security Policy and Foreign Affairs.

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Luyckz’s demand for a new powerful EU terrorism division would see the creation of a massive new agency, forcing Britain’s MI5 and MI6 to share its information on citizens with this new EU counterpart that would see the merger of EU security bodies including Frontex.