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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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People
Being
Court
Information
Needs
Police
Public
Security
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
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Work
Muslim
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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People
Poor
Poverty
Terrorism
World
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
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Majority
World
Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
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Strategy
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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Strategy
Islam
Democracy
Majority
Terrorism
World
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
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Community
Key
Terrorism
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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Travel
Idea
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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Strength
Conflict
Europe
Fact
The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
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Fight
Terrorism
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
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Information
Protection
Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
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Muslim
Europe
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
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War
Circumstances
The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
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Europe
Help
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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Technology
Change