EU - needs to do more to make itself secure: FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE 24 English

Published on 19 Dec 2016

There are over 80 million illegal firearms in Europe but a ban on lethal semi-automatic weapons is being shot down by member states and the European Parliament. Meanwhile, the EU cybercrime and police agency Europol recently leaked hundreds of pages of analysis on terrorist groups and their contacts online. Over a year after terrorist attacks rocked the heart of the EU, the bloc now has a Commissioner for Security, British national Julian King. 

He speaks to FRANCE 24 about the plans to make the EU a safer place, the weapons ban and Europol leak but also about a new plan that could see a US-style pre-clearance system imposed on anyone entering the EU.

A programme presented by Eve Irvine
Produced by Isabelle Romero and Anaïs Guérard