Majority of MEPs back call for alert system

MORE than half of European Parliament members have backed a call for an EU-wide alert system for missing children following a campaign by Kate and Gerry McCann.

Fri, 11 Jul, 2008 - 01:00
Ann Cahill

But the demand by the MEPs follows a decision by Europe’s justice ministers earlier this week to shelve plans for such a system.

Only Hungary has done anything to introduce a special emergency hotline number.

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