It must adopt a unified approach, since split responsibilities and divergent demands could only limit its capacity to deal with the issue.

However, over reliance on Russia for a strategically vital commodity widens the divergence of interests between members, like Germany, that share a privileged partnership with Russia, and those, like Poland, that consider the Kremlin a threat.

This choice is based on the experience and know how gained by these agencies and bodies by virtue of the volume and variety of cases to which they attend, on the one hand and, on the other hand, the human and material resources available to them, with their subdivisions and coherent organization, capable of confronting terrorist groups.