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EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator - Gilles de Kerchove

Published: Oct. 3, 2014, 8:06 a.m.

How serious a threat to western security is the extremist group that calls itself Islamic State? According to those governments now backing military action against the jihadis, the danger is very real - not least from foreign fighters, battle hardened in Syria and Iraq, who return to homes in the West. Hardtalk speaks to the EU counter-terror coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove - does the EU have a coherent response to the Islamic State challenge?

Picture: Gilles de Kerchove, Credit: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images