Tuesday 24 March 2015 13:16, UK
Rising extremism in European society is a threat that could spread to football, according to UEFA president Michel Platini.
Platini, re-elected as UEFA president on Tuesday after standing unopposed, said recent violent incidents around Europe involving extremists revived "certain images that I thought were a thing of the past."
"We need tougher stadium bans at European level and, I will say it again, the creation of a European sports police force," Platini said.
Platini's address echoed FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who called himself captain of a FIFA ship in troubled waters on his previous election day in June 2011 when the world football body was rocked by vote-buying scandals.
However, Platini described himself as a team-mate, "not the captain of a ship that is being battered by a storm."
Platini's strongest message raised concern at increasing incidents of violence, and extreme views at club and national team matches and he urged public authorities to better support football which often felt "as if we have been left to fend for ourselves."
Blatter meanwhile used his address at the UEFA meeting to continue his criticism of parts of the football community who are calling for a boycott of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar respectively.
"Football should be united, sport should be united when it comes to boycotts. Boycotts have never had any results,” Blatter said.
“We have to pay attention to political interferences because in our statues, in the Olympic charter and even in the resolution of the United Nations, it is written that the autonomy of sport must be guaranteed.
“Speaking about the future, let us not forget the evils we have in our game: racism, violence, much manipulation, doping.
“But don’t forget we have hundreds and hundreds of development programs, and we have the will to fight against it.
“We cannot change the world, but we can help in changing the world.”
Blatter will stand for re-election as FIFA president in May but the Swiss official has turned down UEFA's invitation to make a campaign speech alongside his rivals, which include FIFA vice-president Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, Luis Figo, and Dutch football federation president Michael van Praag.
Blatter is the favourite to win a fifth term as head of world football's governing body despite not releasing a campaign manifesto - he says he wants to be judged on his past record.
