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RIGA (Reuters) - The European Union needs to bring Internet companies fully on board in its fight against home-grown militant Islamists, the bloc's interior ministers said on Thursday.
EU member states are increasingly worried about young European Muslims heading to Middle East war zones and returning radicalised and ready to stage attacks at home.
Three weeks after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in three attacks in Paris, the ministers focused on the role of the Internet in Islamist radicalisation during talks in Latvia, which holds the EU's rotating six-month presidency.
"We must strengthen our efforts to cooperate closely with the industry and encourage them to remove terrorist and extremist content from their platforms," the ministers said in a joint statement.
They also discussed wider use of information-sharing under existing tools such as Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency.
"There is a clear urgency to reinforce initiatives aimed at making relevant information available to all concerned law-enforcement bodies," the European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, told a news conference.
Last week, France urged all member states of the United Nations to work together on an international legal framework that would make social network providers share responsibility for the use of their platforms to spread messages promoting violence.
(Reporting by Aija Krutaine; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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The European Union (EU) increased its humanitarian assistance to deal with the Syria crisis by 136 million euros (about $154 million), the European Commission announced here Thursday.
"We remain fully committed to continue bringing relief to the most needy victims of this crisis. That is why we are stepping up our assistance," said EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides.
Stylianides left Wednesday for a four-day visit to Jordan and Lebanon, along with the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn.
Hahn said that in addition to stepping up efforts to address the consequences of the Syrian crisis, the EU remained fully committed to bilateral cooperation with Jordan and Lebanon and would continue to work closely with both governments to support them in their ongoing reforms in key sectors such as renewable energy and justice.
The EU is one of the leaders of the international humanitarian response to the Syria crisis, having mobilised over 3.25 billion euros (nearly $3.7 billion) in assistance. The European Commission alone has already provided 681 million euros (nearly $770 million) in humanitarian funding.
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