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.

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

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

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

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

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