Frightened people will turn to the national authorities they know and may increasingly see Europe, not as the answer, but as the problem — even the threat, writes John Lloyd

A radical Islamic group that recruited youngsters to fight in Syria was a terrorist organisation that wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with strict sharia law, a Belgian court has ruled.

A radical Muslim organisation in Belgium was a well-structured terror group that brainwashed youngsters and sent them to fight in Syria, prosecutors said as a trial started for dozens of suspects.