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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with your permission I should like to turn to one of the twenty-first century’s key challenges, and one which we will also discuss at this week’s Council summit, namely the threat of international terrorism.
What we are dealing with here is the ugly face of globalisation. International terrorism exploits the advantages of pluralist societies to attack the very foundations of those societies – our freedoms. I hope that at the end of the week we will reach further agreements on how terrorism can be fought.
We must show our unwavering determination, but we must never lose sight of the democratic and legal principles which are at the very basis of our society and our prosperity.
The European Commission has played an active role in promoting and preparing an updated EU action plan on the fight against international terrorism, and I should like to make absolutely clear what we hope the outcome of the decisions to be taken at the end of the week will be. These decisions must help us to ensure that the EU will be better prepared to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks, as well as allowing us to block the sources of funding for terrorists to a greater extent than previously, improving our ability to manage the aftermath of an attack and, finally, ensuring better protection for our key infrastructures.
We should not limit ourselves to fighting terrorism by force. We should also oppose its perverse logic, by tackling the ideological and social factors which lead individuals to commit such acts. Long-term commitment and a clear political determination will be necessary to overcome this scourge."@en1
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