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• The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

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• The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

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• Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

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• The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

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• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida’s most important objective – to trigger revolutions.

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• Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

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• Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

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• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims.

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• There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

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• We’re still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

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• We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

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• You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

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Gijs de Vries (33)

Birth:	22nd February, 1956
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Politician

About

Gijs M. de Vries was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is a Dutch Democrats 66 politician. He was deputy Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002. He was the European Union's anti-terrorism co-ordinator from 25 March 2004 to March 2007. As of September 2008, he was the chairman of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum. From 1984 to 1998, he was a member of the European Parliament for three consecutive terms. He earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from University of Leiden. He served as a lecturer in Political Science at University of Leiden from 1981-84.

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