Although MEPs from the European Parliament's civil liberties committee (LIBE) had been summoned at the end of 2015 to accelerate the adoption of the European passenger name records (PNR) directive (which allows European airlines to collect the personal data of their travellers for counter-terrorism purposes), they have criticised the slow speed of member states to implement this arrangement – which finally entered into force on 24 May 2016.
During the European Commission's presentation of...