<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Terrorism became an international problem in the 1970s, forcing the nine states in the European Community to cooperate in the realm of domestic security. The so-called TREVI meeting set the direction for the development of European domestic security policy. The author shows that the meeting was a pragmatic response to terrorism while at the same time, an instrument of broader integration efforts.
