EU steps up global counter-terrorism drive

Children are among the victims after a suspected suicide bomber detonated at the Manchester Arena on Monday, the latest in a string of terror attacks to hit Europe.

A meeting between US and EU officials in Brussels on possibly imposing a laptop ban on commercial flights was described by one senior Trump administration official as "robust".

The European Parliament's position on the audiovisual media services directive will legalise state censorship in social networks.

One of Italy's most powerful mafia syndicates, the 'Ndrangheta, allegedly stole over €32 million from a refugee centre run by a Catholic charity in southern Italy.

EU's right-to-be-forgotten celebrates its three-year anniversary, but citizens in most member states have started to use it less.

Visa liberalisation for Ukrainians entering the EU will also apply to inhabitants of the peninsula taken over by Moscow in 2014. But the issue poses administrative as well as political problems.

An EU-funded counter-terrorism project was recently launched to crack down on violent extremism in a Kampala slum.

A Republican congressman heading a taskforce on denying terrorists entry into the United States says that EU nationals pose a security risk, as some have fought alongside jihadists and wouldn't need visas to enter the US.

Efforts by the European Parliament to scupper visa-free travel for Americans, in light of US restrictions on some EU states, were dashed on Tuesday by the European Commission.

The EU commissioner for migration and home affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said that Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway have six months to phase out internal border checks.

Denmark is leaving the EU police agency on 1 May, but a last-minute agreement will allow Danish police to keep access to its databases.

The EU Commission is to launch a legal probe into Hungary's attack on a Soros-funded university, but Hungary's Orban was unrepentant the he faced MEPs.