Counterterrorism Strategies of the European States: Problems, Solutions and Challenges

The aim of the paper is a comparative analysis of government's willingness and ability to learn from each other and to cooperate in counterring and combating terrorism. The paper focuses on evolution of domestic law enforcements, institutions, structures and policies in selected countries by using comparative law methodology and comparative analysis characteristic for political science. Moreover, it will be examined how does the counterterrorism performance of one country influence the others EU-Members. The basic permise is that European countries can learn from anothers failures and offen they are coping solution, which succeeded. However, at the level of anti-terrorist policy and the fight against radicalization and behaviors that lead to terrorism adopted campaigns are diverse, heterogeneous and sometimes controversial. Irreconcilable conflict between freedom and security affects the discourse about the condition of democracy among Europeans.