On Monday 20 February, the respective German and French ministers for the interior, Thomas de Maizière and Bruno Le Roux, sent a letter to the European Commission calling on it to strengthen its action on terrorism by way of a new initiative on encryption by the end of the year and a reform of the Schengen Code, to take into account terrorist threats.
In their letter to Frans Timmermans, Julian King, Dimitris Avramopoulos and Vera Jourova, the two ministers highlight the importance of...