The European Union has been facing the challenges of terrorism in various forms since its creation. However, there has been no greater escalation than the one we have witnessed in the last 10 years. In response, the European Union has adopted various measures to make Europe safer for its inhabitants, who have so clearly shown that they want to live in secure and safe communities. Despite the many adopted measures, the Union's response to the terrorist threat was shown as inadequate in some cases. To examine the Union's shortcoming in this area, the Special Committee on Terrorism of the European Parliament was created in 2017. Its task was to assess the Union's response to the terrorist threat and propose measures for further action. The result of a year's worth of hearings, conferences, visits, and missions was the Committee's report, which outlined proposals for measures and further steps. In this thesis, I focused on the events that led to the establishment of the committee, its composition and the implementation of the adopted report. I have concluded that the work of the committee did not have a concrete legislative impact on changes at the level of the European Union, nor at the level of the Member States. This is due in part to a short time of operation and incomplete composition of the Committee. Its members therefore failed to discuss the topic comprehensively due to other commitments in the short time of the committee's existance.
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