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Gijs de Vries [1956-0] Dutch

Rank: 102
Politician, Dutch Politician

Gijs M. de Vries is a Dutch Democrats 66 politician. He was deputy Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002, and was the European Union's anti-terrorism co-ordinator from 25 March 2004 to March 2007.

Intelligence, Freedom, Strength, Travel

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I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.	Freedom	101
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.		102
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.	Intelligence	103
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.		104
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.	Intelligence	105
The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.		106
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.	Intelligence	107
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.		108
We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.		109
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.	Strength	110
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.		111
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.		112
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.		113
The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.		114
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.	Travel	115
I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.		116
Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.		117
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.		118
We still lack a global definition of terrorism.		119
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.		120
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.		121
Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.		122
Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.		123
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.		124
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.		125
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.		126
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.		201
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.		202
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.		203
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.		204
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.		205
Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.		206
Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.		207

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