"In the EU, governments have created a complex framework for co-operation against terrorism over the last ten years: they have adopted a counter-terrorism strategy in 2005, agreed a raft of terrorism-related laws, shared more security intelligence, and appointed a ‘counter-terrorism co-ordinator’ to be the public face of their collective efforts ... the recent shift in the US approach, away from the "global war on terror"-concept, makes this an opportune time to look at what EU has already achieved in the fight against terrorism." (Quoted from paper)