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CEP Adviser Liam Duffy spoke with Ian Collins of talkRADIO about the case of Shamima Begum, who left her home in 2015 to join ISIS in Syria, and her potential return to the UK. "...the case is 'probably the most emotive' out of all surviving foreign fighters. But he added that she...

On July 14, The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) hosted a webinar discussion on the upcoming European regulation of extremist content online in the context of the Digital Services Act. Introduction: Lucinda Creighton, Senior Europe Advisor to CEP Europe and former Europe Minister Speakers: Dr. Irene...

On July 14, The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) hosted a webinar discussion on the upcoming European regulation of extremist content online in the context of the Digital Services Act. Introduction: Lucinda Creighton, Senior Europe Advisor to CEP Europe and former Europe Minister Speakers: Dr. Irene...

On May 29, 2020, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) hosted a webinar and launch event for a new study, "On the Threat of Deep Fakes to Democracy and Society". The study was written by CEP Senior Advisor Prof. Dr. Hany Farid—a global leader in forensic...

More than 17,000 foreign fighters were involved in the war in Ukraine. The majority of them were Russians but there were also significant foreign fighter mobilisations in Western Europe. This video looks at two such mobilisations: one that brought fighters to the “separatist” or pro-...

CEP and Berlin Risk hosted a webinar on June 10, 2020, bringing together experts on cryptocurrency and European Union regulatory responses. CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler also presented the latest CEP/Berlin Risk Policy Paper “Further Development of European Union Regulatory...

Many terrorist offenders imprisoned in the European Union and the United States will be released in the coming years. The significant increase in convictions of Foreign Terrorist Fighters since 2014 has created a larger than ever terrorism-related prison population in the United States as well as...

On May 25, 2020, The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Bratislava, Slovakia-based think tank GLOBSEC hosted a webinar discussion, launching the first report on mapping Muslim Brotherhood activities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

CEP and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) host to discuss the latest findings of a report by CEP and Berlin Risk, a German financial and political consultancy company based in Berlin, "Cryptocurrencies as Threats to Public Security and Counter Terrorism: Risk Analysis and Regulatory...

On May 6, 2020, CEP hosted a webinar that focused on the objective and implications of new online content moderation regulation and legislation and the status of the discussions surrounding them. It also addressed critical issues like automated content moderation (e.g. upload filters) and the need...