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Roshni Gorur & Olivia Serio

Representation: France

PWMUN XXV 2008- European Union

Topics: Terrorism and Slavery

"European citizens expect the EU to ensure their individual and collective protection and to safeguard their freedoms and fundamental rights. The achievement of this aim requires a basis of mutual recognition in the area of civil justice, the respecting of privacy and free movement and the fight against all forms of discrimination. It also requires more efficient judicial and police co-operation."

–Jacques Barrot
European Commission Vice President & EU Justice, Freedom & Security Commissioner-

French Politician

        The European Union has been dealing with terrorism for a long time. Terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Spain alone, have caused more than 5,000 deaths in the last 30 years. France has been attacked numerously from the 19th century to present times. The most deadly are, the 1995 bombings in France carried out by the , who were broadening the  to France. These attacks killed eight and injured more than 100. Another was a parcel bomb exploding in ,  killing six, seriously injuring others, and wounding many other innocent civilians. France has passes many anti-terrorism laws such as the Law on Daily Security or another law proposed by the Ministry on Internal Affairs of France. That law facilitates the surveillance of communications allowing the police to obtain communication data from telephone operators, Internet Services Providers and Internet cafes.

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           France has also passed many laws since the attack on the United States of America on September 11th and the later London Bombings. Within 10 days of the September 11 attacks, the EU acted to establish a Union-wide list defining acts of terrorism and appropriate penalties. Other recent achievements in the European Union’s counterterrorism act are a common list of terrorist organizations, new technology for Europol used for analyzing terrorist threats and further improving information exchange and introduction of more secure passports and identification means.

Like all western European nations, France has been forced by ...

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