Anti-terror raids in France and Belgium netted eight more suspects on Tuesday as Paris urged its European Union partners to step up the fight against terror financing with new measures to make transactions more transparent.
Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that raids in southern France detained five people and broke up “one more network” in a small town that has seen several youths leave to fight in Syria and Iraq.
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Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said it is “crucial to cut off all terrorist groups of financing means, and any proposal that would lead to that I would very much support.”
“We will look very positively at new initiatives,” said Denmark’s economy minister, Morten Ostergaard.
