From distant fear to the reality of facts. “Due to the situation in the Middle East, there is an enormous risk of an increase in the terrorist threat in the European Union.” EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs, Sweden’s Ylva Johansson, spoke to a group of European newspapers yesterday and took stock of internal security since The outbreak of the conflict between Hamas and Israel, “knowing” that “they are responsible.” Member States carry out such a risk assessment and it is up to them to decide whether they consider the level of threat to be higher or not.” Johansson recalled that the new Schengen Information System has been in place since March, which stipulates that “all reports related to… with terrorism will be forwarded to Europol”.
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However, the Commissioner is cautious about the possibility that terrorists could arrive with illegal migrants: “Of course, terrorists could arrive covered by the migration flow, but in my opinion the greatest risk is that radicalized people who are already here could carry out attacks.” At the moment we are not seeing large migration flows due to the situation in the Middle East, but it could happen. This is why the new proposal on screening in the new migration pact is so important. Carry out a security check for everyone entering the EU directly. “Then,” Johansson concluded, “there is another specific risk of radicalization of those who are already here, especially when people live illegally and are not part of society, like the terrorist who carried out the attack in Brussels, who was never regular .”
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