At a hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties on Tuesday 24 February, Olivier Onidi, Deputy Director-General for Schengen and Internal Security at the European Commission, Jürgen Ebner, Deputy Director of Europol, and Max Braun, Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit in Luxembourg, defended access to personal data for European judicial and police services, stressing the urgent need to fill the “operational gaps” that currently stall 30% of investigations...