France looks set to get backing from EU counterparts to put in place a Europe-wide, early-warning alert system to report missing children.

THERE should be a EU-wide child abduction alert system, electronically linking police in all member states if a young person goes missing, justice ministers have agreed.

The anguished parents of missing Madeleine McCann will fly to Germany today to continue the search for their daughter.

EU MINISTERS have cleared the way for consumers to take out loans of up to €100,000 from banks and lenders in other member states.

A unique Nazi-era archive containing millions of documents could remain off-limits to researchers for years, officials said.

EUROPEAN Union justice ministers were yesterday deeply divided over scrapping the veto on justice issues, despite being told it was essential in the fight against terrorism.

Germany, Israel, the US and others signed an agreement today opening to researchers an archive of millions of Nazi files describing how the Holocaust was carried out.

Germany has agreed to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers persecuted during the Holocaust.

Germany agreed today to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

European Union justice ministers have shelved proposals to outlaw the use of Nazi symbols after failing to agree on how such a ban could help fight racism and anti-Semitism.