Ensuring security has long been seen as a primarily national competence, but over the years, with the increasing cross-border terrorist menace, the EU has decided to double its efforts and has adopted a more ambitious role in counter-terrorism.  Through a wide range of actions which include numerous pieces of legislation or EU bodies such as Europol or Eurojust that support cross border cooperation, the EU has become a central player in the Counter-Terrorism landscape. 

In today's episode, Lucinda Creighton discussed this European approach with the EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove who has been at the heart of those efforts for over a decade.