Brussels, 18/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - Many MEPs gave a welcome to the vote in Strasbourg on 17 January making the European Police Office (Europol) a full Community agency. The report by Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra (EPP-ED, Spain), adopted by a wide majority, met MEPs' various concerns, notably on data protection (see EUROPE 9582). Changing Europol's legal basis from a convention to a decision will mean Europol will be more effective and closer European Parliament scrutiny,...