The debates across Europe on new security laws to fight terrorism have sometimes created the false image that states threaten rather than protect their citizens’ freedom. In fact, the often-assumed conflict between freedom and public security does not exist.
欧洲各国就新出台的反恐怖安全法展开的辩论有时会给人造成国家威胁、而不是保护民众自由的错觉。事实上并不存在人们假想中的自由和公共安全的对立。