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My name is Michele Cornings, I'm the president of Eurojust and Eurojust is

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fighting organized crime and terrorism in the European Union, not only focusing

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on the European Union but of course liaising with other regions, other

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countries heavily affected by those criminal activities or terrorist actions.

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Well we have to join the forces, for sure it's good to exchange and share

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information, intelligence, police information. What we do is to connect

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these informations with concrete facts, concrete criminals and terrorists and

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ensure that these terrorists and criminals are being taken in courts to

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justice and that they are convicted. We have to deter terrorists, we have to

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deter criminals and last but at least we have to ensure that their revenues, their

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motivation is taken away to also proceed to confiscation. So it's a whole set of

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activity. What we do is obeying and obeying to the rule of law and third

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trial and ensuring that we connect the dots, that we have good cooperation within

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the EU, that we ensure judicial cooperation and coordination and that's built on

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trust. So we have built trust at Eurojust since the last several years. We have

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joined into that effort at a lot of occasions the Turkish authorities in fighting crime and we will

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do so even this month in the frame of terrorism. So this is an ongoing process. I'm a true

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believer of joining the forces and we do not only talk about this but we also do it in

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practice and in concreto.

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I think that dialogue is the answer and we should get engaged as soon as possible in

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dialogue at a preventive stage in schools, in the homes and really talk with the new

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generations. This is the hope for tomorrow, the future of tomorrow and if that doesn't

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help follow up on what's happening. Preventing those youngsters to go to the war zones and the

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conflict zones and if they come back really have a clear eye on them and ensure that those

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hardcores who come back with terrorist intentions are being taken care of again with dialogue,

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ensuring that they have a future that we can help them. So dialogue is the answer and for

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those really lost, I think that convictions and clear signals are the answer and that's what

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we're working on. We have to continue to be hopeful for a better future otherwise we are lost.

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Trust is vital, trust is to be established and it takes years, a few seconds to destroy it and

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an eternity to rebuild it. We cannot allow ourselves to lose trust.