EU SECURITY AND COUNTER - TERRORISM COOPERATION POLICY
EU SECURITY AND COUNTER - TERRORISM COOPERATION POLICY

Summary/Abstract: EU action is not limited to production and consumption. European leaders are constantly faced with problems related to the common defense, to a common foreign policy, of a common action in order to reduce the economic gaps between the member countries of the Union, aspects that can cause long-term instability and tension in relations between members, but also the favoring of violent acts. An alarm was sounded since 1990 by President Richard von Weizsacker in his inaugural address at the opening ceremony of the 41st academic year of the College of Europe on 24 September, "inevitable, cosmopolitan and egalitarian development, of civilization and technology, together with increasing mobility, give rise to a widespread desire to protect the regional culture, as well as the historical and national identity.” Since 1992, through the Maastricht Treaty, the Union has clearly stated in Article B its commitment to watch over the common security in the future based on a common defense policy: by implementing a common foreign and security policy, including the establishment in perspective of a common defense policy ”, and by Article J.1 it envisages: the defense of common values, of fundamental interests; strengthening and strengthening EU and international security; peacekeeping and promoting international cooperation.” In 2005, the EU Council presented the "EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy", a revised strategy in 2014, followed in December 2014 by the approval of a series of mechanisms for the implementation of the revised strategy. In December 2015, the European Commission presented the new regulation amending the Schengen Code on Borders. It obliges Member States to carry out systematic checks on persons crossing the EU's external borders in databases of stolen and lost documents, in the Schengen Information System (SIS) and in other relevant EU databases. The new rules provide a strategic "cooperation group" to exchange information and help Member States increase their cyber security capacity. Each Member State will have to adopt a national NIS strategy.

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