EU response to the terrorist attacks in Paris. How to cope with returning jihadist?

Les rencontres européennes de Sciences Po

With guest speaker Francesca Galli, Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht.

EU policies have strengthened the legal framework required to combat terrorism over the last ten years. Most Member States have adopted new legislation or amended existing internal provisions in line with EU requirements. What remains to be done? Does the existing counter-terrorism framework match the current needs?

In December 2014, EU justice and home affairs ministers ‘agreed to assess the need to update’ the EU’s 2002 Framework Decision on combating terrorism in order to take into account the requirements of a recent UN Security Council Resolution on ‘foreign terrorist fighters’. A revision of the existing Framework Decision has long been advocated by the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove. In particular, there is a growing concern about returnees. How to cope with returning jihadist who are often acting then as lone actors, or small groups of actors whose plans are hard to detect ? Following the terrorist attacks in Paris against Charlie Hebdo, the EU is thus reflecting upon a sweeping legislative response.

 

 

Francesca Galli holds a BA and MPhil in Political Sciences (2005) with a specialisation in International and Diplomatic studies (Laurea in Scienze internazionali e diplomatiche) at the University of Trieste (Italy), a Masters of Law of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Master en carrières judiciaires et juridiques, Diplôme de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques) and a PhD in law at the University of Cambridge.

Before joining the Department of International and European Law, she has worked as a FNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the ULB in Brussels where she has conducted a research Project under the supervision of Prof. Anne Weyembergh, entitled: «L’Union européenne et la prévention du terrorisme : impact sur le droit pénal et redéfinition de la relation entre le droit pénal européen et les droits pénaux nationaux » (2010-13).

 

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