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

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

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.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

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.

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