The European Union has announced measures to tighten security checks on asylum seekers, including intense security screenings to identify possible ‘security threat’ individuals to EU member states. The proposals will broaden current systems which allow authorities in member states to access several security databases to investigate the identity of asylum applicants. Under the new rules, asylum applicants will be cross-referenced against a host of new databases under the ‘European Search Portal’, which includes an EU criminal records system for third-country nationals, Europol and Interpol data…