For reference The Irish EU presidency started on 1st January 2004 and runs until June 30th 2004. After that the presidency transfers to the Netherlands for the second half of 2004, and then Britain will assume the presidency in 2005 (during which time it will also host the G8 summit).

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Here's the article:

Anti-anarchist force formed in Italy
 http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=195886&n=34
09:57:02

Rome, Jan 5 - Italy's Interior Ministry on Monday announced the creation of a European task force to combat "anarchist insurrection" as security concerns mounted over a letter bomb campaign against EU leaders, apparently launched from Italy.

The force will gather data for two months on the "phenomenon of anarchist insurrection" -- the term Italy has used to describe those behind the letter bombs.

Italy will coordinate the task force, which is to help future anti-terror operations.

Experts from states including France, Greece and Spain, which like Italy have been affected in the past by anarchist unrest, will also participate.

Representatives from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands were at the Rome meeting, as were representatives from Europol and the Crime-Fighting Organisation Eurojust, whose top officials were both targetted by booby-trapped devices last month.

The European parliament on Monday launched a rapid review of security after two booby-trapped letters sent to Euro-law makers exploded.

The gathering in Rome of anti-terror police heads had been planned long ago, and their task force declaration made no direct reference to the letter bomb campaign. But it did cite the example of the Italian city of Bologna, which was the origin of most of the letter bombs sent to EU officials.