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Gijs de Vries

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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.


— Gijs de Vries


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Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.


— Gijs de Vries


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I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.


— Gijs de Vries


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If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.


— Gijs de Vries


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If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.


— Gijs de Vries


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If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.


— Gijs de Vries


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In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.


— Gijs de Vries


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


— Gijs de Vries


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


— Gijs de Vries


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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.


— Gijs de Vries


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About Gijs de Vries






Did you know about Gijs de Vries?

In September 2007 MEPs called for the post to be filled having been vacant for six months and for it to be given real powers to carry out the post's tasks. He quit the European Parliament to become state secretary of the interior in the Dutch government Kok II. He stood down from the post in March 2007 citing personal reasons but it is commonly understood that the position's mandate didn't have the necessary operational powers as well as an overall reluctance within member states to supply information regarding anti-terror activities even though the member states fully supported the establishment of the anti-terrorism coordinator after the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

Gijs M. de Vries (born 22 February 1956 in New York) is a Dutch Democrats 66 (D66) politician. As of September 2008 he was the chairman of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF).

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