In an interview recorded just before the Paris attacks, French MEP Rachida Dati talks about the things Europe should do to prevent terrorist organisations from radicalising and recruiting its citizens.

How can we prevent radicalisation?

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Foreboding, it could be said  of the interview you’re about to see.

It was shot two days  before the attacks in Paris.

How to tackle the radicalisation  and recruitment of EU citizens

the debate has long been open  in the European Parliament.

In her report, the response is unequivocal:

more coordination and cooperation  is needed between the Member States.

We asked her questions coming  from different players in the field.

more than 5,000, mainly young people  have gone to Syria or Iraq in recent years.

You've written a report on this subject.

We sent this report  to a lot of people who read it

and who have a lot of questions for you.

The first comes from France,  the French Muslim Council. Let's listen to it.

Isn't it urgent for Member States  to look at textbooks

and review the knowledge  passed on to future generations

destined to live in a period  different from ours

in order to fight the lack  of a religious education

and to transmit more highly developed  critical thinking skills.

How does the EU plan  to build its common policy

to prevent youth radicalism?  Thank you.

The question is clearly about education.

The question of education  is necessarily central

to the serious matter and scourge  that radicalisation is.

There are schools with real social problems

that lead a part of our youth to no longer  identify with the nation they belong to.

They identify themselves through  the smallest common denominator

that can sometimes be religion,  a perversion of religion.

But it must be taken into account...  Where it gets complicated...

As you know, education  is a national competence.

I was just getting to it.  How can you talk about Europe...

Everyone has their own history.  England's approach is completely different

from France's community-based approach,  and so is Germany's.

So how is prevention done today?  Via education.

And so every country  must first have a policy

targeting inequalities.  And first of all in schools.

In France, inequalities have widened  and worsened in schools.

Is that something you see across Europe?  -Yes, of course.

Because, if you like, it has been very much  a social question from the start.

So... In Europe, we take our time, we have  been praised for our model of integration.

So the question today - as for a long time  it's been difficult for us to say

that our immigration policies  must be European,

today the integration policy  must be European.

We'll return to this with another question.

Let's we move on to Denmark, a country  that's also been affected by terrorism.

Where the approach is a bit different,  especially concerning those who return.

In our work on de-radicalisation we see  online radicalisation as a major challenge.

We know that intelligence services  are looking over the internet,

that websites are being closed and banned.

In our schools we try to teach youngsters

how to behave and navigate safely  on the internet,

but still we see youngsters being  radicalised through the internet.

That's the real problem. Radicalisation  and jihadism now happen in two ways.

They happen via the internet or in prison.

For the most part, adolescents become  radicalised over the internet or in prison.

I've made proposals in this direction, to  make internet giants criminally responsible,

because the internet cannot just claim to be  a mere channel that lets everything pass.

Today, all the jihadist organisations,  all the criminal and terrorist organisations

use the net to attract, to recruit people.

But how would you make  the internet responsible?

Look, the Ministry of the Interior in France  can demand internet giants

to remove content.  They have a responsibility.

But when you see how much information  there is online, the calls for jihad,

the videos that are much better done  than anything by governments in Europe...

How would you manage this in practice?  -The internet giants can...

They make a lot of money from the  distribution of these videos and these sites.

Why? Because of the publicity  surrounding them.

There could be a fundamental problem,  in the question of this lawyer, Mr Martins.

He is a criminal lawyer  in Brussels. His question.

Mrs Dati, don't you think that for this  prevention of radicalisation to work,

the geopolitical problem in the Middle East  must first be treated?

Let's say it like it is: since  the Westerners' interventions,

the situation has become completely  unmanageable years ago already.

Everyone is familiar with the geopolitical  question, that's why you've reacted to it.

Now, isn't he right to say - well,  we can do both at the same time,

but is it not high time  to find a solution to this?

No, because all the questions are linked.  What is important today is to be able to...

The fight against inequalities  begins at school.

we have a responsibility in Syria,  in Iraq, in Afghanistan.

We have a responsibility.  But we're not the only ones.

The Gulf countries  have a responsibility.

It saddens me greatly that European  policies and European political reasoning

don't expect Saudi Arabia to have a role  in what's happening in the world now.

The last question. The representatives of  the UK prisons have sent their point of view,

what they call a statement  regarding what they want to do.

We take the threat of radicalisation  very seriously,

and work with a range of organisations to  provide intervention programmes in prisons.

We have measures in place  to deal with radicalisation,

including moving offenders  to other establishments,

using segregation where necessary,  and working with prison chaplains.

As previously announced, the Secretary  of State has commissioned a review

to look at how we deal with the threat of  extremism and radicalisation in prisons.

For them, the problem is clearly at the  prison level. There's a word that shocks me,

How can we prevent radicalisation?

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