The Islamic terrorist attack which took place on Friday, 26 June in Sousse, Tunisia, confirmed the structural difficulties of the Tunisian security system — which already came to light with the attack on the Bardo Museum — in preventing this kind of action targeting defenceless European tourists; these difficulties have arisen on the one hand because of the transition from the old to the new regime and, on the other, because of the destabilisation of neighbouring Libya.

It is worth remembering that Tunisia is only 113 kilometres away from the southern border of the EU as represented by the island of Lampedusa.

Does the Council, through its counter-terrorism coordinator, not think it should meet its Tunisian counterparts in order to assess, together, what practical help the EU could provide in the fight against terrorism?