BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union nations are overhauling anti-terror measures to focus on airline passenger information as part of a strategy to halt the flow of foreign fighters to and from Syria and Iraq.
Spurred by the terror attacks in France, EU interior and justice ministers will address the long-standing debate over how to process sensitive travel information at a two-day meeting starting Thursday in Riga, Latvia.
The EU has so-called Passenger Name Record deals with the United States, Canada and Australia, but in four years of political wrangling has failed to agree on a system for sharing data among its own member countries.