Thomas Renard, PhD, is the Director of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), a think tank in The Hague, Netherlands. He is also the Research Committee Chair of the European Union’s Knowledge Hub on the prevention of radicalization, and a Steering Committee member of EUROPOL’s Advisory Network on terrorism and propaganda.
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Editor’s Note: The following column draws on a detailed study of terrorist attacks and plots against elected officials in Europe between 2015 and 2025. It is based on research originally published in
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