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Europol

Type: Organization

Name: Europol

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Serious Organised Crime Agency

Traffickers targeted in EU raids

Many would-be immigrants pay traffickers thousands of euros A gang suspected of bringing more than 2,000 illegal immigrants into Europe has been targeted by police in a series of raids across Europe.In all, 22 suspected gang members have been arrested ... [BBC - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Serious Organised Crime Agency, European Union, Europol, United Kingdom

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Gordon Brown

Brown hopes to fix Afghan pullout date

UN-sponsored London conference could agree timetable for eventual withdrawalGordon Brown tonight raised the prospect of agreeing a timetable for international withdrawal from Afghanistan, in a speech in which he claimed that almost half of al-Qaida's ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Al Qaeda, Sir David Richards, Karl Eikenberry, United Nations

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

8 Bulgarians Busted for Stealing Credit Card Data in Poland, Austria

Eight Bulgarians have been detained in a joint operation of EUROPOL and the police services of Austria, Bulgaria, and Poland. Bulgarias Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, announced that two Bulgarians had been arrested in Poland and six in the southern ... [Sofia News Agency - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Poland, Credit Card, Austria

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

22 arrested in Europe for people smuggling

Police arrested 22 people in Britain, the Netherlands, France and Greece on Tuesday for allegedly smuggling around 2,000 people, mainly from Iraq, into Europe, the Europol police agency said. ... [Expatica France - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Europol, Smuggling, Greece, Netherlands

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

European Union

Police nab smugglers who brought 2,000 into EU (Reuters)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police across Europe arrested 22 people on Tuesday on suspicion of smuggling some 2,000 immigrants into the European Union, mainly from Iraq, law enforcement organisation Europol said.Immigration is a sensitive issue in the EU, where ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Europol, Immigration, European Union

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Janet Napolitano

Global customs operation hits cash smugglers

Customs authorities in more than 80 countries collaborated to seize at least $3.5 million in smuggled cash and identify $24 million in undeclared currency during a one-week period in late October.The joint effort, called Operation ATLAS, involved real-time ... [American Shipper - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Janet Napolitano, US Department of Homeland Security, Belgium, World Customs Organization

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

European Parliament

Lisbon Treaty: changes from unanimity to QMV

Hear are lists of areas that change to QMV under Lisbon or are introduced by Lisbon and use QMV.None of the first group below applies to Ireland as it's opted out of this area (Freedom, Security and Justice).Freedom, Security and Justice Provisions:1. ... [Politics.ie - 11/17/2009]

Entities: The Council, European Parliament, Lisbon Treaty

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Gordon Brown hopes to fix Afghan pullout date

UN-sponsored London conference could agree timetable for eventual withdrawalGordon Brown at the Lord Mayor's Banquet during which he delivered the traditional prime minister's speech on foreign policy. Photograph: Oli Scarff/ Gordon Brown tonight raised ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Al Qaeda, Karl Eikenberry, London

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Macedonia, Israel sign cooperation healthcare agreement - Zibb.co...

Company: Medical Sciences, Inc. (MCLS)["Macedonia, Israel Sign Cooperation Agreement in Healthcare, Medical Sciences" - MIA headline]Jerusalem, 16 November - Minister of Health Bujar Osmani, who is paying a working visit to Israel, met Monday [16 November] ... [Zibb - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Macedonia, Israel, Yaakov Litzman, Health Care

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/07/2009 - 6 Documents (in Politics)

Pact on nuclear energy project signed with EU

NEW DELHI India and the 27-nation European Union on Friday signed a pact on an ambitious nuclear energy project.The two sides also agreed to expand their cooperation in countering terrorism by accelerating negotiations between Europol, the EU’s nodal ... [Oman Tribune - 11/07/2009]

Entities: European Union, Nuclear Power, European Atomic Energy Agency, Europol

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 5 Documents

Russia, Poland agree on gas supply terms

MENAFN - 31/10/2009(MENAFN) The Polish Oil and Gas Mining (PGNiG) and Russia's Gazprom agreed on cooperation ... [MENAFN - 10/31/2009]

Entities: PGNiG, Poland, Gazprom OAO, Europol, Russia

First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/24/2009 - 2 Documents

Report: Organized crime thriving in Europe

Low-cost airlines and fewer trade restrictions have boosted trafficking in drugs, people and counterfeit products in Europe, authorities say.Illegal traffickers are thriving as Europe opens more of its borders to legitimate business, said Europol, the ... [UPI - 10/24/2009]

Entities: Organized Crime, Europol, Counterfeit, European Union

Quotes

"A trip in a truck cost between 700 and 1,000 euros. A trip in a car (more secure) with a driver is around 2,000 euros" Europol said

Police nab smugglers who brought 2,000 into EU (Reuters) [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/17/2009]

...I think that the fact that we hosted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon here shows that we are working at an international level. "The IIEA will be co-operating with Europol, the European Police Agency, INACH, the International Network Against CyberHate, EuroISPA, the European Association of Internet Service Providers, and INHOPE, the International Association of Internet Hotlines."

Dublin to lead web terrorism fight [Silicon Republic - 11/12/2009]

"We have agreed to work towards an early finalisation of the agreement between Europol (the nodal criminal intelligence unit of the EU) and India" he said

'No information about plot' [Express Buzz - 11/07/2009]

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8 Bulgarians Busted for Stealing Credit Card Da... [Sofia News Agency - 11/18/2009]
22 arrested in Europe for people smuggling [Expatica France - 11/18/2009]
Bulgarians arrested in Poland over int'l identi... [Warsaw Business Journal - 11/17/2009]
Traffickers targeted in EU raids [BBC - 11/17/2009]
Police nab smugglers who brought 2,000 into EU ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/17/2009]
Police arrest 22 over trafficking [BBC - 11/17/2009]
Brown hopes to fix Afghan pullout date [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
Brown hints at Afghanistan handover date [The Age - 11/17/2009]
Gordon Brown hopes to fix Afghanistan pullout date [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
Lisbon Treaty: changes from unanimity to QMV [Politics.ie - 11/17/2009]
Gordon Brown hopes to fix Afghan pullout date [Guardian.co.uk - 11/16/2009]
Global customs operation hits cash smugglers [American Shipper - 11/16/2009]
Macedonia, Israel sign cooperation healthcare a... [Zibb - 11/16/2009]
Schengen committee visits Cyprus to look at ill... [Cyprus Mail - 11/14/2009]
Dublin to lead web terrorism fight [Silicon Republic - 11/12/2009]
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents in Association w... [Forbes.com - 11/11/2009]
Poland renews contract with Gazprom, increases ... [Individual.com - 11/10/2009]
France tells Sri Lanka to lift emergency laws -... [Zibb - 11/08/2009]
Madeleine McCann: 19 Muslim Countries Refuse To... [Anorak - 11/08/2009]
'No information about plot' [Express Buzz - 11/07/2009]
Pact on nuclear energy project signed with EU [Oman Tribune - 11/07/2009]
Free trade agreement with EU within a year, say... [Oman Tribune - 11/07/2009]
India, EU ink nuclear pact [Asian Lite - 11/07/2009]
India and EU sign nuke pact [Calcutta Telegraph - 11/07/2009]
India-EU trade talks suffer labour pain [Yahoo! India - 11/06/2009]
PM hints at exploring emission targets [Calcutta Telegraph - 11/06/2009]
Manmohan wants world to stand firm on Afghanistan [The Hindu - 11/06/2009]
Preliminary Results of Largest Global Cash Smug... [Department of Homeland Security - 11/06/2009]

Blogs

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Cameron can't run away from Europe much longer [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 05/17/2009] There's nothing compassionate about the friends the Conservative leader is making on the ContinentI won't be mean-spirited. The leader of the opposition is on a ...
Assessing Progress Against the Global Jihadist ... [Counterterrorism Blog - 05/11/2009] In April 2009, the U.S. State Department and the European Union released their annual terrorism reports, which paint a varied picture of international counterterrorism ...
A New Look at the Af/Pak Crisis [Counterterrorism Blog - 05/11/2009] Now that the Afghan/Pakistan crisis if front and center, and the ties between organized crime and the funding of radical Islamist movements are clear, it would be ...
Post-Iraq, would-be militants eye Pakistan [Pakistan: Now or Never? - 05/06/2009] By William Maclean The flow of foreign militants to Pakistan worries Western governments, which fear the south Asian country has replaced Iraq as the place to go ...
Law Forcing Swedish ISPs to Finger File Sharers... [Epicenter - 04/03/2009] Sweden's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) law went into effect on Wednesday, reducing the amount of internet traffic in the country by ...

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