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Austria's secret service proposal falls flat

EU Justice and Interior Ministers rejected on Thursday an ambitious proposal by Austria calling for the creation of a European Intelligence Agency to reinforce the EU’s actions against terrorism and organised crime.

The proposal, set out in a discussion paper presented by Austria’s Interior Minister Ernst Strasser to his other EU counterparts on Thursday, was to set up a European intelligence service - but without police powers - with the aim of identifying at an early stage potential t...

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