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

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

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.

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

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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.