The Czech EU presidency has admitted to a security blunder that saw personal details of EU summit delegates put on a public computer.
A Finnish citizen at a Prague hotel after the EU-US summit on 5 April found the passport numbers and travel itineraries of around 200 summit delegates, including Finnish President Tarja Halonen and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, Finnish agency STT reported late last week.
Finnish police criticised the lapse, which is being played down by the Czec...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.