The bloody terrorist attacks targeting European cities, the last of which took place in Brussels in thepast few weeks, revealed the fact that the EU has to deal with this danger in a more serious andcomprehensive manner than ever before. Many security experts believe that the measures taken by Europe16 the fight against terrorism are still inadequate, as clearly seen in the cases of Paris and Brusselsattacks.With multinational attacks, terrorism today has truly reached a global scale. It now aims for targetson a transnational scale 17 local. It has become glaringly obvious that much more rational andeffective solutions should be developed against terrorism, 18 conventional measures seem to beinadequate and fruitless.Intelligence sharing between nations is important. However, 19 the intelligence that waspassed to Belgium and the official warnings made by Turkey about the terrorists that organized the recentsuicide attack in Brussels, the terrorists were released by Belgian authorities before the attack on the rather20 grounds that they had no links to terrorism.
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