09 July 2019
"The European Union intends to further strengthen operational cooperation and exchange of information between police authorities. The focus will be on upgrading Europol, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.(...)"
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Internal security in the EU: "Moving from data collection to data connection“ (link):
"The proposal would also integrate decentralised systems into the "interoperability model“. The Romanian Presidency paper describes this as "moving from data collection to data connection“. Among other things, the Prüm Treaty is mentioned. All Member States of the European Union agreed there to allow mutual consultation of national fingerprint and DNA databases. Norway and Iceland are also taking part, and Switzerland recently also decided to join."
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