The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) nominated, on Thursday 26 October, Jonas Grimheden (Swedish) as its favourite candidate for the post of Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), with 31 votes in favour, 15 against and 5 abstentions.
At his hearing in front of the MEPs, the Swedish candidate set out his four priorities. On the one hand, he would like to complement the FRA’s benchmarking work with “sharper products”, i.e. faster and based...