Terror threat

Real Reason EU Has Been Unable to Deal With Terrorism, Migration

The recent terrorist attacks against Paris and Brussels, Bordachev suggested, "can be regarded as the final stage of the development of contemporary Europe, even if in itself, the concept of political terrorism is not new to the continent."

The key difference between the terrorists of decades and centuries past, and those of the present, the analyst added, is that "contemporary terror is waging a war not only against Europe," or any one country in particular, "but against the whole of Western civilization. And often the countries that find themselves under attack are not those which, from the terrorists' view, are the most to blame, but those that are most defenseless," Belgium being a prime example.