EC: more than 2000 EU citizens have been recruited by extremists for fighting in Syria and Iraq

EC: more than 2000 EU citizens have been recruited by extremists for fighting in Syria and Iraq

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“These people leave their homes to fight on the side of the rebels, and then returned to the EU”, – said the representative of the European Commission

BRUSSELS, Aug. 27. More than 2000 Citizens of the European Union have been recruited  by extremists to participate in the fighting in Syria and Iraq. This was announced at a press conference in Brussels, the European Commission spokesman Michele Serkone.

“More than two thousand people from EU countries to fight on the side of extremists in Syria and Iraq. But this is a very approximate figure its extremely difficult to determine the exact amount involved in extremism Europeans” – said Serkone, without specifying the period for which this information have been provided.

According to him, each of the EU Member States is required to make efforts to combat extremism. “This problem poses a great threat to the European Union. Fact these people leave their homes to fight on the side of the rebels, and then returned to the EU”, – said the representative of the European Commission.

Earlier this year, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström, the EU said that in 2015 it is planned to create a European Knowledge Centre for the fight against extremism. “If this idea is accepted by EU governments, the European Commission has allocated 20 million euros for the establishment of the center,” – she said.

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