Annotation: the article is devoted to the analysis of objective and subjective determinants influencing the emergence and activities of organized terrorist groups. The objective determinants are the occasion to unite individuals in such organizations. Subjective determinants contribute to a person's membership in a terrorist association.
The authors consider the newest internal and external threats to the EU in the nearest future (2017-2018) which are determined by global, regional and local trends of world development and changes of political, economic and security priorities of the EU within the context of signing the Rome Declaration in 2017. It is asserted that the economic risks and strengthening of Euroscepticism are considered as traditional for the functioning of the EU.
The article analyses political terrorism as one of the greatest threats to the security of the modern world. This risk is not only reducing but sometimes it even increasing. The terrorist attacks have clearly demonstrated that today even powerful states are unable to ensure the safety of the citizens on their own. Terrorism is evolving, becomes globalized, transforms, and obtains transnational features that make it a global problem.