Commissioner Michael McGrath speaking in Brussels on June 24. Image: Lukasz Kobus © European Union, 2026
New EU proposals would give Europol a sovereign cloud and a shared data space to fight cross-border crime.
The European Commission has proposed extensive new measures to strengthen Europol and Eurojust, aiming to give the EU’s law enforcement and judicial agencies sharper tools against crime that it says is increasingly sophisticated, international and digital.
The package includes two regulations reinforcing the mandates of Europol and Eurojust, a revision of the European Investigation Order, and changes to the Data Protection Regulation for EU institutions and bodies. The reforms are designed to target criminal networks and hostile actors operating across borders, online and increasingly through AI.
Technology is at the heart of the proposed Europol overhaul. The agency will build a secure, scalable and sovereign cloud infrastructure alongside a new Police Shared Data Space, allowing investigators in different member states to work jointly on the same cases in real time. Automated information sharing is intended to replace slower manual exchange between national authorities.
