A group of MEPs in the European Parliament's civil liberties committee are demanding the UK sever all ties to an EU police database, in the wake of EUobserver's revelations of widespread abuse - posing further possible complications on Brexit talks.
The UK is not part of the passport-free Schengen zone but was granted partial access to the so-called Schengen Information System (SIS) database.
The EU-run SIS database is used by police to track down undocumented migrants, missing p...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.