Member states are facing one of the biggest tests of European integration in the aftermath of the Madrid attacks: how far to go in exchanging intelligence information.
As the EU struggles to find a co-ordinated response in an area that is one of the last bastions of sovereign power - the limits in the political will between member states has become glaringly obvious.
This was something acknowledged by the European Commission on Tuesday (16 March).
There is a "certain cultur...
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