European anti-terror measures to follow Norway attacks

EurActiv reports that the EU was set to introduce stringent tests to regulate the manufacture and sale of fertilisers and other materials used to make home-made bombs in the wake of Anders Behring Breivik’s mass murder in Norway on the 22 July 2011.

The announcement came following an extraordinary meeting of the Council’s terrorism working party (TWP) and counter-terrorism group (COTER) convened in Brussels by the Polish EU Presidency with the participation of the Norwegian authorities.

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EUObserver, 28.7.11: EU scrambling for measures against 'lone wolf' terrorists http://euobserver.com/9/32666

Council of the European Union: EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator http://www.consilium.europa.eu/policies/fight-against-terrorism/eu-counter-terrorism-co-ordinator.aspx?lang=en

Council of the European Union: Fight against terrorism http://www.consilium.europa.eu/policies/fight-against-terrorism.aspx?lang=en

ESO: Background information: Killer personifies rise of new far-right http://www.europeansources.info/record/killer-personifies-rise-of-new-far-right/

ESO: Background information: Twin terror attacks kill 93 in Norway / Killings stir fears of extreme right / Norwegian charged over terror attacks http://www.europeansources.info/record/twin-terror-attacks-kill-93-in-norway-killings-stir-fears-of-extreme-right-norwegian-charged-over-terror-attacks/

Council of the European Union: Press Release: PRES/11/265: Terrorist attack in Norway: Joint meeting of the Terrorism Working Party and COTER http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/jha/124072.pdf

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