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World Summit on Counter-Terrorism
ICT's 8th International Conference - September 11, 2008
Workshop - Terrorist Threats in Europe
Europe has overcome its years of radical leftist (and in the case of Italy also radical rightist) terrorism of the 1970s and 1980s. There are some signs that new extremist anarchist groups try to revive this "heroic" period, for the moment without success.
The radical separatist organizations active since the 1960s have survived only in Spain, where the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA - Basque Homeland and Freedom) organization is not able to renounce its terrorist strategy, by taking the example of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
If Palestinian, Hizballah and Iranian terrorism targeted time and again European territory and interests from the 1970s to the 1990s, by the end of the 20th century and more so since 9/11, radical Islamist groups originating in North Africa, Pakistan and Arab countries have staged mass attacks in Spain and the UK, while many other similar plots have been foiled or failed on their territory,and also in France, Germany, Italy.
This Islamist threat, combined with what is commonly called "homegrown" terrorism, challenges indeed the various European states and the European Union at large.
The panelists will touch to the various aspects of the present threat and its implications to the European counter-terrorism strategies.
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