BRUSSELS - The EU wants to further prop up anti-terror efforts at its overseas civilian missions in places like Niger.
The concept paper includes getting EU missions to seal cooperation deals between EU member state intelligence and security services with the host governments.
Although such missions already seek to counter terrorism, the latest proposal (framed as a "mini-concept" by the EU's foreign policy branch, the European External Action Service, EEAS), entails giving them so-called "semi-executive functions."
