The terrorist threat in Europe

The daily reacts to the recently foiled terror attacks in Great Britain and the alleged plot discovered in Germany. They demonstrate that "the debate over the reasons for which one country finds itself caught up in the terror furore, while others are spared, is totally sterile. Nobody can feel entirely safe from fanatics or look in the other direction, because the threat is universal, the target being societies that are open, secular, Western and democratic. Those societies that benefit from, and embody, the values that the instigators of jihad detest and seek to eradicate. ... Hence the importance of better informing the public since, ultimately, information is one of the best weapons for heightening security in the face of terror and chasing away the spectre of fanaticism stalking Europe."

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