The European Union justice and interior ministers have agreed to revamp the role of the EU's anti-terror coordinator, officials said Tuesday, following calls for the union to do more to prevent attacks. Portugal's Interior Minister Rui Periera, whose country holds the EU presidency, told reporters that the EU ministers have drafted a new description of the job. A new coordinator is expected to be appointed in the coming weeks, the Associated Press reported. The ministers were debating Tuesday who should fill the post. The former anti-terror chief, Gijs de Vries, left the job in March at the end of his three-year mandate. Javier Solana, the foreign policy chief of the 27-nation union, and the man to whom the new coordinator will report, said the ministers had agreed on powers for the new anti-terror coordinator «that will be deeper and with a much closer relationship» with EU governments and authorities.
