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Europol is going rogue – so Brussels is doubling its budget?

Europol is going rogue – so Brussels is doubling its budget?
EUobserver

A new investigation lays bare the enormity of Europol’s rogue tactics: the agency maintained a ‘shadow IT environment’ parallel to their official databases. Keeping a second set of books is a mob classic to hide from scrutiny. Europol’s case was no different: the parallel database was outside the agency’s legal framework with almost no safeguards and limited oversight.

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