3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries I have never come across a technology that doesn’t change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries 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.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
3 December 2020 Gijs de Vries In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
