European governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament tomorrow.

The European Parliament insists on being granted more decision-making powers and a role in structuring the EU budget before approving the bloc’s financial package for 2007-2013, senior EU politicians said in Brussels today.

Plans to liberalise Europe’s port services are likely to be rejected by the European Parliament in a vote today, after EU legislators called the proposals dangerous and unlikely to increase competition.

The European Parliament today approved legislation requiring telecommunications companies to retain phone data and internet logs for a minimum of six months in case they are needed for investigations into terrorism and other serious crimes.

A European Parliament committee criticised EU governments today for failing to address concern about CIA activities on European territory, and said allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights were now “beyond speculation".

The European Parliament will meet today to thrash out a proposed data law – a key anti-terror measure that Britain and other member states want adopted by the end of the year.

On his first day in office, EC President Jose Manuel Barroso was under fire from the European Parliament, which urged him to suspend Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot.