Alferova Elena Vasilievna – Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Head of the Depart-ment of Jurisprudence, Leading Researcher INION RAS Zakharov Timofey Vladimirovich – Researcher, INION RAS
In recent years, European states have been repeatedly sub-ected to deadly terrorist attacks. The threat faced by EU Member States is multifaceted: from the return of foreign terrorist fighters from conflict zones to the extremist activities of homegrown terrorists and «lone wolves». In order to prevent terrorist attacks and combat terrorism, EU authorities and national states develop counter-terrorism policies and legislation. Based on the long-term activities of the UN in this area and on its own experience, the European Union adopts a large number of political and regulatory legal documents. The EU’s anti-terrorism policy and legislation are becoming more effective and realistic year after year, and intergovernmental cooperation mechanisms are being developed in the form of international treaties or politically binding rec-ommendations and guidelines. In recent years, a number of new legal and other standards have been developed, which, together with existing international and regional strategies, conventions, recommendations and agreements, form the basis for current and future work in the field of combating terrorism and preventing radicalization and extremism leading to terrorism. The article examines some key documents of the EU and the Council of Europe adopted after September 11, 2001, including the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy of 2005, updated in 2016, as well as new directions and measures to combat terrorism in the last three years (2018–2020). Based on the legal databases of the Council of the EU, the European Commission, the Euro-pean Parliament, and the Council of Europe, a quantitative sample and an approximate count of anti-terrorist and related regulatory legal and individual acts adopted in 2018–2020 were made. The proposals of scientists and experts, including those expressed at the forums of international organizations, on im-proving the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy are summarized.
the European Union, the Council of the EU, the Council of Europe, Europol, anti-terrorism legislation, the fight against terrorism, the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy
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