The US justice department is set to allow the FBI to single out Muslims, Arabs and other minority ethnic groups as potential terrorist suspects. Agents would be able to open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.

Today the European Commission presented its package on Patients' rights in cross-border healthcare. Liberal Democrats are  delighted that Commission Vassiliou has shown courage by coming forward with her proposal. The Liberals and Democrats regard this proposal as a first important step toward a free European patient area.