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Interior ministry officials from the Group of Six (G6) held a two-day meeting with the U.S. attorney general and the Homeland Security chief in Polish city Krakow.
The meeting ended on Thursday, discussing ways of combating organized cross-border crime and international terrorism, according to local press.
The G6 group was created in 2003 by France, Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain, and Poland joined in March 2006.
The participants discussed EU's future cooperation in interior affairs. "We agreed that we need consolidation of to-date achievements more than any extraordinary, new regulations," said Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, Polish Interior Minister, after the meeting.
The meeting focused on fighting new models of organized cross-border crime. "We have decided to increase information exchange in this area," Sienkiewicz added.
The participants also discussed international terrorism, in particular the threats posed by EU citizens taking part in the military conflict in Syria.
The G6 would not like Europeans to have an input in the civil war and the group would also like to prevent Europeans from conducting similar hostile activities when they are back in Europe, said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
The German minister also stressed the importance of cooperation with Turkey in preventing cross-border terrorism.
Minister Sienkiewicz affirmed that the U.S. and EU are allies in combating terrorism and expressed hope that the currently-negotiated personal data exchange deal "will elevate cooperation to a new level."
The meeting was organized by Poland's Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz and was attended by German, British, Italian and Spanish interior ministers and French interior ministry officials as well as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.
