Despite signing up to an anti-terror declaration and agreeing that an anti-terror co-ordinator should begin work next week, questions still remain about how quickly member states will implement key legislation in the area.
EU leaders on Thursday (25 March) signed up to a declaration on combating terrorism, in which they pledge to "implement fully and without delay" a raft of measures by "no later than June 2004".
However some measures will still be delayed until next year.
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