Gijs de Vries Quotes

Gijs de Vries — Dutch Politician born on February 22, 1956,

Gijs M. de Vries is a Dutch Democrats 66 politician. He was deputy Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002, and was the European Union's anti-terrorism co-ordinator from 25 March 2004 to March 2007. As of September 2008, he was the chairman of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

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