Scotland set for wider role in cross-border crime fighting
Published Date:
21 July 2008
By Rachel Stevenson
KENNY MacAskill, the Justice Secretary, is to meet his European counterparts in Brussels this week to discuss cross-border crime such as drug trafficking and cyber-crime, including child pornography.
The ministers will also examine ways of improving EU legislation to increase judicial co-operation between European countries, and debate the proposed European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, which sets out new principles to fight illegal immigration...
The full article contains 329 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
20 July 2008 7:28 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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