On Thursday 19 March, Magnus Brunner, European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, presented the key priorities of Europol’s future reform to the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties. Faced with criminal networks acting like “multinationals” with their own “IT departments”, the Commission intends to make the agency a “truly operational” player in the global geopolitical context.
According to Mr Brunner, the coming mandate should be built around four...