At a meeting in Paris that happened at the same time as the “republican march against terrorism” on 11 January, the interior ministers of eleven European Union countries drew up a list of priorities to counter the growing threat of European jihadists returning home after fighting in Syria and Iraq. There are estimated to be 2,500 of them, according to EUobserver.

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