To examine the causes of this threatening dynamic, the European Institute for Counter-Terrorism and Conflict Prevention (EICTP) hosted a meeting at the Novotel Berlin Mitte on the morning of June 3. The "European Trend Report on Terrorism" was presented in the Potsdamer Platz conference room. Numerous security experts, analysts, and risk managers listened intently to the presentations of Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, and Austrian terrorism researcher Dr. Nicolas Stockhammer. The security policy panel was moderated by retired Colonel Ralph Thiele, who also regularly contributes  to Cicero .