EU flags rising terror threat from radicalized youth seeking online thrills

A quarter-century after the attacks that defined a generation's understanding of terror, European security officials are warning that the threat has migrated inward — into the psychological landscape of youth and the digital platforms that shape it. The European Union has identified a troubling pattern: young people drawn not by doctrine or grievance, but by the primal allure of transgression, notoriety, and belonging that extremist violence appears to promise. Where radicalization once required physical proximity to radical networks, it now arrives algorithmically, through the ordinary mechan