"We have to energetically oppose terrorism, but we mustn't change the way we live," Solana has told the German weekly Bild am Sonntag in an interview to appear on Sunday, adding "Europe is not at war."

"We are democrats who cherish our freedom. If we change the way we think, we are adding to the terrorists' victory," he added.

European countries have ramped up security following the March 11 attacks on four commuter trains in Madrid in which some 200 people were killed and more than 1,400 injured.

They have been followed by a series of warnings that Islamic militants may be preparing further attacks on European allies of the US-led war in Iraq.

But Solana stressed that what was needed to combat terrorism was "better cooperation between the police, justice and intelligence services.

"We have to uncover international terrorism's sources of finance and boost security on our transport services."

At emergency EU talks Friday in Brussels called in response to last week's attacks in Madrid, European Union interior and justice ministers debated a raft of measures to beef up the EU's front of the war on terror.

The measures will be discussed further by foreign ministers on Monday before being formally adopted at a summit of EU leaders next Thursday.

The measures include appointing a new "coordinator" to oversee the fields involved in the anti-terrorism fight -- including police and judicial work, intelligence-sharing and cracking down on extremists' financing.

EU diplomats, playing down talk of a "terrorism tsar", said the new post was expected to form part of Solana's department rather than become a new agency.