European Parliament urges measures to boost

EU aviation sector

)1(European Union (EU) lawmakers have called for a series of

measures to improve the position of the EU air transport

economy.

The European Parliament in Brussels passed a resolution—

428-149 (with 53 abstentions)—calling for a level playing field

between airlines, while upholding high safety and social

standards.

The motion is intended to feed into the forthcoming “Future

Aviation Package” of measures to improve the sector due to be

issued by the European Commission, the executive branch of

the EU.

Parliamentarians said that “comprehensive aviation agreements

with the EU’s major trading partners must be negotiated,” and

expressed concern at the loss of competitiveness of EU airlines

and airports “vis-à-vis subsidized third-country carriers and

airports.”

To be effective, any such agreements must include a safeguard

clause that defines an offense and the legal consequences of its

violation, parliamentarians said. They also wanted the

Commission to revise existing rules in order to tackle more

effectively market-distorting unfair practices such as subsidies

and state aid to airlines from non-EU countries.

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The resolution also urged rapid adoption by member

, to remove the Single European Skystates of the

expense and complexity of the current fragmented

management of EU airspace.

passenger It also urged the Commission to clarify

rules.rights

The Association of European Airlines (AEA) welcomed

the resolution as “a step in the right direction,” CEO

Athar Husain Khan said. It applauded the intention to

tackle unfair competition and the need to reform the

burdensome regulatory framework in Europe.

However, AEA also said that other measures to improve

airline competitiveness were required, such as regulation

of airport charges; it also had reservations regarding

European Aviation Safety proposals that the

remit should be expanded beyond that of Agency’s

safety.

IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said European airlines are

struggling because of “unreasonable taxes, high costs

for inefficient infrastructure and regulations unfit for

purpose.” The Future Aviation Package must tackle

those points, he said.

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airport employees in 2 Egypt has detained

with the Russian jet crashconnection

(1)CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have detained two

employees of Sharm al-Sheikh airport for questioning in

connection with the downing of a Russian jet on Oct. 31 that

killed all 224 people on board, two security officials and an

airport employee said on Tuesday

"Seventeen people are being held, two of them are suspected of

helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm al-

Sheikh airport," said one of the security officials who both

declined to be named.

One of the security officials said CCTV footage showed a

baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to

another man, who was loading luggage onto the doomed

airliner from beneath the plane on the runway.

An employee at the airport media department, who also

preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed two members of the

ground crew had been detained for questioning on Monday

night.

The interior and civil aviation ministries' media departments

denied in a statement that there had been any arrests.

Russia's FSB security service said on Tuesday it was certain a

bomb had brought down the plane, joining Britain and the

United States in reaching that conclusion.

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(2)Egypt has not yet confirmed that a bomb was responsible,

saying it wants to wait until all investigations are complete.

It was not immediately clear what role the employees had at the

airport, which is Egypt's third-busiest, handling a vast number of

charter and budget flights for tourists seeking sea and sun in the

southern Sinai peninsula.

Separately, other sources at the airport said security forces

were searching for two employees who are suspected of leaving

a baggage-scanning machine unattended for a period of time

while passengers were boarding the doomed Russian plane.

CCTV footage was being examined to confirm what happened.

The sources said investigators had questioned all the airport

staff involved with handling the Russian airplane, its passengers

and bags after the crash. No arrests had been made in the

search for the two employees who were believed to have

stepped away from the baggage-scanning machine.

Since the disaster, many flights to and from Sharm al-Sheikh

have been suspended, raising concerns that Egypt's tourism

industry, worth about $7 billion a year and still a pillar of the

economy despite having fallen sharply in recent years, will be

further ravaged.

Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's FSB, said the

conclusion of Russian investigators was that a homemade

bomb containing around 1 kg (2 lbs) of TNT had detonated

during the flight, causing the plane to break up in mid-air.

"We can unequivocally say it was a terrorist act," he said.

Egyptian ministers were meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh on

Tuesday, with a news conference expected later in the day.

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Against CyberattacksISIS Planning Major

Airlines, Hospitals And Nuclear Power Plants

(1)The U.K. government is worried that Islamic State hackers will

target the country's critical national infrastructure, including

hospitals, airlines and even nuclear power stations, and it will

announce on Tuesday an investment in cyber security of £1.9

billion over the next five years to combat their efforts.

The world is still coming to terms with the fallout from

known also --by the extremist group unprecedented attackthe

as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh -- on Friday which has left at least 129

people dead and dozens more fighting for their lives in Paris. In

a widely distributed speech to be delivered Tuesday at the

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) -- the

UK’s equivalent to the NSA -- in Cheltenham, Chancellor

George Osborne will say the potential impact of a cyberattack

by ISIS “could be measured not just in terms of economic

damage but of lives lost.”

ISIS has used the Internet, and social media in particular, as a

highly effective way of spreading propaganda but to date its

and ineffectual hacking efforts have been

While ISIS likes to proclaim that its Cyber .unsophisticated

Caliphate -- and other similar pro-ISIS hacking groups -- are

waging cyberwar on the west, the truth is that, to date, it has

had very limited success, something Osborne will recognize in

his speech. “They do not yet have that capability. But we know

they want it, and are doing their best to build it.”

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(2)Threats to the critical national infrastructure of countries -- oil

and gas pipelines, electricity grids, power stations, hospitals,

airports and more -- that are increasingly being run by computers

are on the rise, with most attacks carried out by well-funded and

highly sophisticated nation state hacking outfits -- something ISIS

aspires to become.

“ISIS’s murderous brutality has a strong digital element. At a time

when so many others are using the Internet to enhance freedom

and give expression to liberal values and creativity, they are using it

for evil," Osborne will say. "Let’s be clear. ISIS are already using the

Internet for hideous propaganda purposes; for radicalization, for

operational planning too. They have not been able to use it to kill

people yet by attacking our infrastructure through cyber attack.”

In the wake of the Paris atrocities, the U.K. has moved swiftly to

reinforce its national security. On Monday, Prime Minister David

Cameron announced the creation of 1,900 additional positions in the

UK’s intelligence organizations (MI5, MI6 and GCHQ), admitting the

in the last six month, with seven terror attackscountry had stopped

the most recent attack foiled in the last two weeks.

Cameron also announced £2 billion in additional funding for the SAS

and special forces as the country looks to bolster itself against

expected increase in threats from ISIS and other terror groups as

the country’s terror threat level remains at severe -- a position it has

been at for more than a year.

Cameron compared the threat from ISIS to that posed to the U.K. in

the last century by Hitler and the Nazis in a speech at the Lord

Mayor’s Banquet in London on Monday night, recalling the resolve

of the U.K. in its defiance of Hitler. "It is that same resolve that will

defeat this terrorism and ensure the values we believe in -- and the

values we defend -- will again prevail," he said according to

.Daily Mailthe

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