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Mr Biden will meet the full panoply of EU and Nato leaders on his three day trip (Photo: whitehouse.gov)

US vice-president talks up EU terrorism threat

US vice-president Joe Biden has said that Europe faces "new and pernicious threats" to its security on the eve of his visit to the EU capital, a trip designed to help secure MEPs' approval on new counter-terrorism measures.

Writing in the New York Times before arriving in Brussels on Wednesday night (5 April), he listed "the spread of weapons of mass destruction to rogue regimes with access to ballistic missil...

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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.

Mr Biden will meet the full panoply of EU and Nato leaders on his three day trip (Photo: whitehouse.gov)

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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.

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