German conservatives advocate creating ‘European FBI’

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc is advocating stepping up security cooperation among European Union nations to create what it calls a “European FBI.”
The proposal was part of a program for the May 23-26 European Parliament elections approved Monday by Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister, the Christian Social Union. The CSU’s Manfred Weber is the European center-right’s candidate to be next preside