EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT FAVOURS BODY SCANNERS IN ALL EU MEMBER SATES
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PRESIDENT of the European Commission has indicated he favours a harmonised standard for European Union (EU) airport security that includes the installation of body scanners. José Manuel Barroso was speaking at the European Parliament on March 9, as Commission officials draft a proposed EU security response to the averted Christmas bombing threat over Detroit. This proposal will be released in April and Barroso said he would "favour" a common agreement to install scanners in all 27 member states: "I think it should be possible ...
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