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.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

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

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

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

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.