Using the internet to promote acts of terrorism will become a criminal offence under plans to be unveiled by the European Commission today.

European Union governments have either collaborated with the CIA or turned a blind eye as it allegedly abducted and illegally detained terror suspects on EU soil, a British MEP claimed today.

US VICE-PRESIDENT Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may be asked to appear before a European Parliament inquiry into alleged CIA rendition flights and secret prisons.