ProtectEU: agenda para a prevenção e a luta contra o terrorismo

- stresses that the Agenda should be developed through continuous consultation, not only with the Member States, but also, in a systematic manner, with local and regional authorities;

- points out that preventing radicalisation requires the direct and systematic involvement of local and regional authorities;

- emphasises that local and regional authorities, by virtue of their core competences in managing public spaces, parts of critical infrastructure and public transport, must be fully involved in the planning and implementation of measures aimed at protecting people in the physical environment;

- calls for targeted European Union financial measures aimed at improving the security of public spaces, protecting critical infrastructure and increasing the resilience of local transport systems to be made directly available to local and regional authorities;

- stresses that the Commission must ensure that EU funds are never awarded, directly or indirectly through third parties, to organisations with confirmed links to terrorist or violent extremist movements;

- reiterates its call for the Commission to develop, in cooperation with the European Committee of the Regions, an EU local security agenda.