Securing Europe through Counter-Terrorism: Impact, Legitimacy and Effectiveness THE IMPACT, LEGITIMACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF EU COUNTER-TERRORISM

Counter-terrorism Terrorism

This report presents the key findings from the SECILE project for those engaged in the design, drafting, implementation, review and study of EU counter-terrorism. SECILE is a major, collaborative project part-funded by the FP7 programme which aims to explore the meaning of ‘impact’, ‘legitimacy’ and ‘effectiveness’ in the context of EU counter-terrorism, to make key recommendations for reform, and to undertake empirically-informed work on three fields of EU activity that were developed under the banner of ‘counter-terrorism’ (the European Arrest Warrant, databases used in border surveillance, and measures for the disruption of counter-terrorism finance).