In Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, the new “Joint Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremis” has landed to be signed today, during the EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs. It will help equip the EU and the Western Balkans better to address “new and emerging threats”, as explained by the European Commission in a notice, “including online radicalisation, as well as the impact of new technologies on terrorist threats, such as risks associated to the misuse of drones, or the use of cryptocurrencies for terrorism financing. The new joint action plan will strengthen cooperation and capacity-building in five main areas:  alignment with EU counterterrorism legislation, preventing extremism, strengthening cooperation with Europol, including on counter-terrorism investigations, reinforcing the capacity to investigate terrorism financing, and strengthening the protection of critical infrastructure and public spaces”. From Sarajevo, European Commissioner Magnus Brunner explained that “by signing the Joint Action Plan today, we take another step in deepening our cooperation on security”, since “the Western Balkans are not only our neighbours, they are destined to become Members of the European Union”.