BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local):
9:30 a.m.
European Union interior and justice ministers gathering for an emergency meeting on how best to respond to the threat of violent extremism will hear urging from France and Belgium to tighten gun laws, toughen border security and choke off funds to extremist groups.
But the ministers are not expected to order any new measures that could be immediately introduced to restore calm among countries rattled by the coordinated attacks in Paris, claimed by the Islamic State organization, that killed 129 people.
Documents prepared for the Friday meeting in Brussels and seen by The Associated Press indicate the ministers instead will try to push forward on priorities already identified, but not acted on, by EU leaders following an earlier round of deadly attacks in Paris on a satirical newspaper and a kosher grocery in January.
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9:20 a.m.
French Interior Bernard Cazeneuve is exhorting his European Union partners to toughen the bloc’s borders and move forward on a long-delayed system for collecting airline passenger information.
Cazeneuve warned them on Friday that “we can’t take more time. This is urgent.”
His call came at the start of an emergency meeting of EU interior and justice ministers aimed at fine-tuning a European security response to the attacks in Paris a week ago, in which 129 people were killed.
“Terrorists are crossing the borders of the European Union,” he said, underlining why the EU must adopt a so-called passenger name record system, which has been held up for years.
He said the system would allow the EU to better track extremists and foreign fighters coming and going from Syria and Iraq.
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