The European Commission has developed an EU security strategy from 2015 to 2020, the main priorities will be the fight against crime, organized crime and cybercrime, said the European Commissioner for home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos. According to Avramopoulos, the EU is also obliged to appear a counterterrorism center that will be created on the base of European police Agency Europol, reports Deutsche Welle.
As has told the Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, we are not talking about the emergence of a "European FBI" - proposed development of a centre for the exchange of information about the extremists, illegal arms trafficking and other threats. Now the strategy must approve all member countries of the EU and the European Parliament. However, the discussion may be delayed because of implementation of the strategy may require a number of mandatory changes. At the end of March was declared that the European Union States will re-examine my strategy of defense. For example, following the meeting in Potsdam, the defence Ministers of the " Weimar triangle (Germany, France and Poland) Ursula von der Leyen, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Tomasz Samonac asked to review the foreign policy strategy of the EU. On solidarity vision of Ministers, amid crises in Ukraine and the Arab world, the defense of the Union requires strengthening. While Germany, France and Poland have plans to become the driving force of the process. Europe needs a unified policy in the sphere of defence, Ministers believe.
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