The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
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Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
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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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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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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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I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
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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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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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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 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 and interior ministers.
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