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EU: NORWAY MASS KILLINGS: Press release: Terrorist attack in Norway: Joint meeting of the Terrorism Working Party and COTER

01 July 2011

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EU: NORWAY MASS KILLINGS: Press release: Terrorist attack in Norway: Joint meeting of the Terrorism Working Party and COTER (pdf): "It has noted that, as the Oslo attacks have shown once again, terrorism has nothing to do with any particular religion or belief. The EU and its member states have always rejected violence regardless of the motivation - be it right wing or left wing extremist, separatist or religiously motivated terrorism." It might have been expected that the Council Working Parties would have agreed that the EU would commit more resources to tracking far-right extremist groups. In the Europol Annual report on terrorism there were 45 defined "left-wing" attacks (in Greece, Italy and Spain) but none from the "Right-wing" - the definition of "terrorism" used excludes racist attacks and murders. The report noted that far-right, racist and fascist groups appeared to be getting more organised and using the internet and social networking to propagate their views.

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