On Monday 29 January, Catherine de Bolle, the future director of Europol, the EU's police cooperation agency, promised MEPs at the civil liberties committee to work in complete transparency with them, as her predecessor, Rob Wainwright used to do and to make the agency more responsive to the threats identified.
In a hearing with MEPs, the Council’s shortlisted candidate to head Europol also promised to adapt the agency to member states' current needs. She began her hearing by making a...