European leaders shy away from easier decision-making

EU leaders have made no moves to ease the decision-making process in the sensitive justice and home affairs area despite the best efforts of the Finnish EU presidency and the European Commission.

Following a two-day summit in Brussels, the veto-based system will remain in place – a set-up that has seen the EU make only painfully slow process in its anti-terror and security legislation, a drawback particularly highlighted in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorism attacks in the US.

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