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Share your eyewitness accounts 6.44am GMTThe Australian prime minister,Malcolm Turnbull, has criticised European security arrangements, or arguing they were allowed to “slip” before Tuesday’s attacks in Belgium.
Turnbull had been asked whether an terrorist act similar to that in Brussels could occur in Australia. He told the ABC:You cannot guarantee that there will be no terrorist incident.But I can assure Australians that our security system,our border protection, our domestic security arrangements are much stronger than they are in Europe, or where regrettably they allowed security to slip.
People are able to freely travel across borders within Europe – that poses security challenges,coupled with clearly very porous external borders as we’ve seen plenty of evidence of that.
My point really was to say that those arrangements believe security consequences. 6.35am GMTIf you’re waking up in Europe now, here’s a reading list to bring you up to date on the latest developments:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com