Terrorist alarm in the UK

According to Richard Werly, the EU is caught up in questions raised by the failed British attacks. "Portugal, which this Sunday took over the presidency of the EU for six months, finds itself ... at the centre of a tornado. The extension of the domains of judicial and police co-operation is part of the 'mandate' that the 27 gave, during the recent summit in Brussels, to the future Intergovernmental Conference (CIG) which must produce a 'corrected' European Treaty. This subject is that much more sensitive for Lisbon because the United Kingdom had, in Brussels, insisted on different exemptions in this matter. The Eurosceptic Gordon Brown ... thus finds himself confronted by this new menace. One lesson has already been learned: the security of the 500 million citizens of the 27 member countries is due, more and more, in the fields of prevention as well as repression, to the development of a European police jurisdiction, the only thing capable of responding to the free circulation of people".

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