Clearing House is a working group in the
European Union established after the
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
. It is composed of national
security services
Security Service or security service may refer to:
Government
* Security agency, a nation's institution for intelligence gathering
* List of security agencies (MI5, NSA, KGB, etc.)
* (SD), Nazi German agency which translates as "Security Servi ...
under the
Common Foreign and Security Policy
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is the organised, agreed foreign policy of the European Union (EU) for mainly security and defence diplomacy and actions. CFSP deals only with a specific part of the EU's external relations, whic ...
who meet regularly in
Brussels on counter-terrorism matters.
Its primary roles are to agree which groups go on the EU's black list of
terrorist group
A number of national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and fo ...
s and have their financial assets in the EU frozen. It does not appear on official lists and is not open to public scrutiny. All advice given by the group is not accompanied by evidence or reasoning and when put before leaders it is adopted as an "A point" (agenda item without discussion).
There are some allegations that the group is open to political manipulation with calls for greater scrutiny, however this is resisted for security reasons.
External links
EU's secretive counter-terror group to face scrutiny- Source for above
EU's Secretive Group Faces Scrutiny- Similar to above, no subscription req.
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Counterterrorism and the European Union
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