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It's a global threat which requires global solutions.
As part of its effort to build a more secure society we have also increased our
cooperation with the United States.
We have of course minor differences between the U.S. and the EU.
But this cooperation has been possible because we share the same ideas.
We share the conviction that our homeland security
is depending on the strong defense of democracy, of fundamental rights and our
values and freedoms.
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks we must look forward and we must ask
ourselves what is the next step
in our transatlantic cooperation.
I want to highlight three areas in here where I think we can enhance the cooperation
over the Atlantic. The first one is obviously terrorism.
The second one is cyber security. And the third one: bridging the gap between
internal and external security.
And the EU’s activities in these fields to feed into the work of the global
counterterrorism forum that will be launched next week in New York.
The U.S. and the E.U. face similar problems here,
so I hope we can have cooperation on how we can jointly counter violent
extremism.
We are natural partners in here and that's why the creation of the high-level working group, EU-U.S.,
last November was so important. The working group is on
cybercrime and cyber security.
And the group has agreed to deliver concrete results within a year
and that includes exercises,
fighting cybercrime, developing private-public partnerships with industry,
and other issues. So we're now preparing a report for the next use EU-U.S. summit
this fall and
I’m glad to announce that we have already achieved quite a lot in these objectives.
I tend to think of our counter-terrorism efforts
internationally
as part of really a global counter-terrorism network.
And like any network,
the network is vastly more
efficient
and more valuable if it’s interoperable
That's what the internet is all about, right, it was coming up with a protocol
that was
recognizable by every data network in the world,
and that's how it
deployed so quickly.
I think we need to think of
our counter-terrorism networks
in the same way. Overall because of the common values that we share
and because of the common problems that we face, there has been a growing
convergence in our approaches to dealing with terrorism. Everyone understands
what needs to be done. There may be issues about exactly how we go about
dealing with it, but I think certainly we are looking to deal with the same
problems and we're trying to find ways to work together to address them. At the
moment the focus of the of the U.S. counterterrorism effort is in sort of
three big areas which track nicely with some of the things that have been
mentioned by some of the EU participants here. We are looking at
figuring out ways to counter violent extremism
to address the root causes of radicalization. We are looking to work
more through multilateral organizations. There was mention made of the launch of the
global counter-terrorism forum next week. I think this is a very significant
development. We are trying to bring together practitioners of
counterterrorism in a way that will maximize the impact of our cooperation
around the world. As was said this is not meant to be a discussion group where
people are trying to define things, but it is rather a group that is being
brought together to engage in action to build capacity around the world. We're
very much looking forward to working with the EU on that. It is a process of
looking at what kind of threats we face and figuring out how we can best address
it
bringing to bear the advantages that each side brings to the table.