The annulment by the EU's top court of an EU regulation which rubber-stamped a UN blacklisting decision by freezing the assets of alleged terrorists without information, redress or appeal represents a landmark in the development of European fundamental rights.

The European Parliament has endorsed plans to strengthen the ability of the EU's 'Eurojust' body of national prosecutors from the 27 countries - chaired until 2007 by the UK's Michael Kennedy, now boss of the Crown Prosecution Service - to coordinate prosecutions for serious and organised transnational crime.

The European Parliament has backed a report by Sharon Bowles MEP (UK, Lib Dem) that aims to break the prolonged EU deadlock over fighting VAT fraud.