“We are on the brink of a civil war,” said Patrick Calvar, Head of France Domestic Security Agency, after the numerous terroristic attacks in 2016. The growing coalition of ISIS has caused an increased number of terrorist linked attacks throughout Europe. After the 2015 attack on Paris the attacks continued in Nice, Germany, Normandy and Brussels.The first and bloodiest of a sequence of attacks taking place within two weeks took place in Nice, 84 people were killed when man drive a truck through the crowds. The European Union’s (EU) strategy to combat terrorism has four main focuses; prevent, protect, pursue and respond. This strategy was adopted in 2005 and has only been revised a few times over the years. The question at hand is if one
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In the article Le’onard critics the EU border control measures saying they “make a limited contribution to the actual fight against terrorism.” She then moves on to discuss the idea of the EU’s inability to fulfill its objectives in using their border controls for counter-terrorism. Horst Seehofer, a conservative German politician, said to the Times magazine, “We need more security in Germany. People are riled up, full of fear and that is completely understandable.” He told this to Dan Stewart ,writer at Times Magazine, in ‘A Summer of Bloodshed Threatens the European Union’. In the article he interviews several people about the events that happened in the summer of 2016. Stewart speaks to Matthew Goodwin, senior visiting fellow at the ThinkTank Chatham House, he discusses the idea of the EU’s founding pillar of free movement and the possibility that the union may have to start a discussion on limiting it. “We are not at that watershed moment yet where Europe will overhaul one of its founding pillars, but the ingredients are there.” This article also goes into detail about the affect that this summer will have on the different member state governments. Two-thirds of French have lost confidence in their governments ability to fight terrorism. This loss in confidence puts the current president’s, François Holland, position at risk. In Germany, an anti-immigrant party calls for a mass deportation of failed asylum seekers. While in the anti- Islamic party in the Netherlands is in a prominent position to win power in March of 2017. These factors could create a more hostile generation of leaders throughout the European
In the article Le’onard critics the EU border control measures saying they “make a limited contribution to the actual fight against terrorism.” She then moves on to discuss the idea of the EU’s inability to fulfill its objectives in using their border controls for counter-terrorism. Horst Seehofer, a conservative German politician, said to the Times magazine, “We need more security in Germany. People are riled up, full of fear and that is completely understandable.” He told this to Dan Stewart ,writer at Times Magazine, in ‘A Summer of Bloodshed Threatens the European Union’. In the article he interviews several people about the events that happened in the summer of 2016. Stewart speaks to Matthew Goodwin, senior visiting fellow at the ThinkTank Chatham House, he discusses the idea of the EU’s founding pillar of free movement and the possibility that the union may have to start a discussion on limiting it. “We are not at that watershed moment yet where Europe will overhaul one of its founding pillars, but the ingredients are there.” This article also goes into detail about the affect that this summer will have on the different member state governments. Two-thirds of French have lost confidence in their governments ability to fight terrorism. This loss in confidence puts the current president’s, François Holland, position at risk. In Germany, an anti-immigrant party calls for a mass deportation of failed asylum seekers. While in the anti- Islamic party in the Netherlands is in a prominent position to win power in March of 2017. These factors could create a more hostile generation of leaders throughout the European