The European Union's anti-terror chief is confident the World Cup will be safe from terrorism.

"I am absolutely convinced that everything possible has been done and is being done," EU counterterrorism coordinator Gijs de Vries said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press.

NATO will have AWACS surveillance planes patrolling the skies over Germany during the June 9-July 9 tournament. Soldiers will be on standby with radiation and chemical warfare detection equipment. And the German government will reimpose national passport checks at borders to minimize the threat of terrorism.

On top of that, Europol, the EU's police investigations agency, is involved in coordinating intelligence-gathering and looking into terror threat assessments.

"Germany is in the lead with providing security and there is strong international cooperation to help the German government," de Vries said.

Widespread anti-terror precautions have been taken at major sports events in Europe since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. The 2004 Athens Olympics, the 2006 Turin Games and the 2004 European soccer championship in Portugal all took place without a hitch.

But De Vries warned against complacency.

"Fortunately, through good cooperation, we have been able to provide a very high level of security in the past," he said. "Again, there is never 100 percent guarantee that there cannot be an incident or a major attack. We always run that risk in a democracy."