The European Commission opened a consultation - on 23 October and until 15 January - on the future rules of Europol, which will be the subject of a new mandate next year.
It wants to sound out the stakeholders on the shortcomings of the EU’s police cooperation agency, including “inadequate allocation and deployment of human, financial and IT resources, an articulation and definition of tasks not sufficiently flexible to cover emerging forms of crime and new security threats,...