{"slug": "eu-looks-at-tech-to-bulk-up-its-police-agency", "title": "EU looks at tech to bulk up its police agency", "summary": "The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to strengthen Europol's mandate by enhancing information exchange and embedding cutting-edge technology at the heart of its operations, as part of a broader internal security strategy to counter threats from cyberattacks to hybrid aggression linked to Russia-backed actors.", "body_md": "BRUSSELS — The European Union wants to make Europol the central nervous system for police to trade data and use cutting-edge technologies, as part of plans to [beef up the bloc's internal security](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-protecteu-internal-security-strategy-2025-04-01_en).\n\nThe European Commission [unveiled plans on Wednesday](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1420) to strengthen the way its law enforcement agency based in The Hague fights crime, as the bloc seeks to formulate a tougher response to threats ranging from cyberattacks to hybrid aggression previously linked to Russia-backed actors.\n\n\"We are proposing to strengthen Europol's mandate by enhancing information exchange and we are embedding cutting-edge technology at the heart of its operations,\" said Commission Executive Vice President for tech and security Henna Virkkunen.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-looks-at-tech-to-bulk-up-its-police-agency", "canonical_source": "https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-technology-police-agency-europol/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication", "published_at": "2026-06-24 16:29:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 16:47:55.619975+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["European Union", "Europol", "European Commission", "Henna Virkkunen"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-looks-at-tech-to-bulk-up-its-police-agency", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-looks-at-tech-to-bulk-up-its-police-agency.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-looks-at-tech-to-bulk-up-its-police-agency.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-looks-at-tech-to-bulk-up-its-police-agency.jsonld"}}