Gijs de Vries Quotes
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If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
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The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
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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.
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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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We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
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In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
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The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
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If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
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I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
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We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
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The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to 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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Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
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It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
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Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
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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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Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
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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 people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
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The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
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We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
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If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
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Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
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