National security

Two brothers who posed as tax officers on Tuesday in order to swindle 350 euros from an 80-year-old man in a village in Kilkis, northern Greece, were in hospital later in the day after a car chase by police culminated in them losing control of their vehicle and suffering broken limbs.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Monday that intense efforts are being invested in the preparation of the Law on Enforcement and Security, and added that the new solutions should be ready for adoption in mid-2015.

The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Valeriu Zgonea on Thursday said that the prepaid SIM cards law and the cybersecurity law are important and urgent for national security structures.

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Bulgaria, Romania consider ways to counter terrorism

The two countries seek new laws and increased international co-operation.

George Maior, head of Romania's intelligence service (SRI), said new laws under consideration in Romania are needed to better assess risks to national security. [AFP]

BiH, region, work with US to beat terrorism

Countries across the Balkans are working together with the US in the fight against ISIL and other terror groups.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is part of the coalition to fight against ISIL. [AFP]

The cyber security law is essential to the objective of making the national cyber security system operational and facilitating the adoption of a complex of measures correlated with the accelerated dynamic of cyber-attacks, according to a press release of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) remitted to AGERPRES on Sunday.

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The Hellenic Data Protection Authority on Friday fined a maternity clinic 30,000 euros for operating a closed-circuit TV camera system in its labor unit, where women are monitored before being taken into the delivery rooms.

The cameras had been working from 2006 to 2014 without patients? prior consent.

Speaker of the Deputies Chamber, Valeriu Zgonea, believes that the Big Brother law (Law No.

Greek police officials have raised the possibility that convicted terrorist Christoforos Xeros's activities while on the run may have been financed by convicted criminals serving time in local correctional facilities, Kathimerini understands.

A ministerial meeting on resolving the Ukrainian crisis in the so-called "Normandy format" will be held in Berlin on Friday, according to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexei Makeyev.