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We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice... →
The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.