Gijs de Vries Quotes

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

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  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in National Security, Sovereignty, Services

• We’re still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

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  Tags in Resistance, Fighters

• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

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  Tags in Terrorism, Definition

• We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Vulnerable

• We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

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  Tags in Foreign, Ministers

• We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

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  Tags in Familiar, Terrorism

• Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

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  Tags in Terrorist, Attack

• 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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  Tags in Poverty, Terrorism

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

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  Tags in World, Majority, Muslims

• 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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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Muslims, Terrorism

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Islamists, Fundamentalism, Community

• 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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  Tags in Global, Regional, Standard

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

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  Tags in European, Border, Agency

• The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

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  Tags in National, Authority

• 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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  Tags in Terrorists, Europe

• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida’s most important objective – to trigger revolutions.

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  Tags in Terrorists, Revolutions

• Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

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  Tags in Terrorists

• 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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  Tags in Security, Services

• Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Strategy

Gijs de Vries (33)

Birth:	22nd February, 1956
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Politician

About

Gijs M. de Vries was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is a Dutch Democrats 66 politician. He was deputy Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002. He was the European Union's anti-terrorism co-ordinator from 25 March 2004 to March 2007. As of September 2008, he was the chairman of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum. From 1984 to 1998, he was a member of the European Parliament for three consecutive terms. He earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from University of Leiden. He served as a lecturer in Political Science at University of Leiden from 1981-84.

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