US security chief James Clapper warns open EU borders allow Isis terror cells to thrive

The US intelligence chief has issued a stark warning that the free movement of citizens around the European Union is allowing Islamist militants to prosper and plot attacks on countries including the UK.

 

James Clapper, US director of National Intelligence, said such open borders have allowed Isis to establish sleeper cells and there is evidence that groups in the UK, Germany and Italy are planning Paris and Brussels-style attacks.
In a briefing to journalists in the US, he said: “There’s a fundamental conflict – on the one hand there is the European Union’s incentives and drives to promote openness and free movement of people and goods and privacy, which is in some ways in conflict with the responsibility each country has as a nation state to protect the security of its border and its people.

 

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