BRUSSELS –
The United States and the European Union talk next week in Washington continue about how they are together risks and terror threat in the air, the head can offer. This is evident from a joint statement after talks in Brussels Wednesday. The European Commission had the Americans invited to clarify their plan to use laptops, tablets, and cameras to prohibit the carry-on baggage on flights from the EU to the US.
National Coordinator Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) Dick Schoof was present. According to EU sources, the Us assistant secretary of homeland security, Elaine Duke, the EU commissioners for Transport and Home Affairs and the existing aviation and security experts from seven countries with large luchtvaartbelangen “informed about the background of the laptopverbod.” Because of the safety aspect was the content and nothing else.
The Americans would be the measure want to take for fear of explosives, electrical devices larger than a phone. The commission wants the EU’s joint position. According to a diplomat is the information now first time in the capitals evaluated.
A spokesman of the committee said earlier Wednesday that “every threat to the US is also a threat for Europe. It is important that we work together. Information should be shared and the answer would be a common need.”
The U.S. handling all of a laptopverbod for incoming flights of ten airports in the Middle East. Great Britain has a similar prohibition is set for direct flights from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.