Gijs de Vries Quotes

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
• There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
• The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
• 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…
• We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
• We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
• The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
• Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
• Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
• I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
• If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
• In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
• Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
• You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
• The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
• Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to…
• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
• If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

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