Europol terrorism data

Posted on by Stephan

Each year Europol publishes a report on terrorism in the EU. We’ve gathered the data from all years available and created several graphs based on it.

Please not that in these graphs we have exclude the UK now, even for the years that they were still in the EU. this was done to make the data a bit more comparable over the years shown.

First a graph with a count of all attacks per year, split per cause (stacked bar chart).

Graph showing number of terrorism attacks in the EU since 2006, per cause. Total number declined from almost 600 in 2007 to 28 last year. Up to 2015 most attacks came from seperatists and ethno-nationalists. After that year left wing and jihadists are major contributors. Except in 2021 (No left wing). The UK is excluded from this data, even for the years they still were member of the EU. 2023 saw a sudden rise to 120 attacks, after 4 years with less than 50. 2024 saw a decline again to 58, with mainly jihadist and left-wing/anarchist attacks.
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Counting EU law infringement cases per country

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All the laws created on EU level have to be implemented by the member states. Sometimes the implementation is late, sometimes the implementation is wrong and sometimes a country did other things that violated existing EU laws.

The EU Commission keeps track of the number of open infringement cases at year end for each country. Using their reporting the following heatmap table was produced.

Heatmap table showing the open EU law application infringement counts for all current EU countries per year since 2009. Summary data, average of open cases since 2009 Country Average Denmark 31 Estonia 33 Lithuania 37 Malta 38 Finland 39 Latvia 41 Luxembourg 45 Netherlands 45 Croatia 46 Sweden 48 Ireland 52 Slovakia 53 Hungary 57 Slovenia 57 Cyprus 61 United Kingdom 62 Austria 64 Romania 64 Austria 64 Romania 64 Czechia 65 Bulgaria 67 Portugal 69 France 70 Germany 76 Poland 79 Italy 80 Belgium 82 Greece 86 Spain 92 EU average 59