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On 20 June 2019, the European Council of the European Union adopted a new strategic agenda for the next five years (2019-2024). Security – which had already been made one of the main priorities by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during his term of office – remains high on the agenda. The new agenda focuses on four main priorities.

On 4 June 2019, the Romanian Council Presidency published an overview of the state of play of legislative proposals in the area of justice and home affairs.

Norway provided information on the joint statement by “the Ministerial Forum for Member States of the Schengen Area with External Land Borders.” The Forum met in Kirkenes, Norway on 20-22 May 2019.

At their meeting on 6 June 2019, the Justice Ministers of the EU Member States debated about a report by the Romanian Council Presidency on the future of EU substantive criminal law. A questionnaire was designed to find out MS' views on the need to introduce additional harmonising criminal law provisions in new areas within the EU’s competence pursuant to Art. 83 TFEU

Finland plans to increase awareness of hybrid threats and to reinforce the EU’s common response to them. At the informal meeting of the home affairs ministers of the EU Member States in Helsinki on 18 July 2019, the Finnish Presidency presented a fictious scenario involving hybrid threats and invited the ministers to hold a policy debate.

On 29 May 2019, the European Commission and the European External Action Service tabled a report on the EU’s progress in tackling hybrid threats. The EU response to hybrid threats is mainly based on 22 countermeasures, ranging from improving information exchange and strengthening the protection of critical infrastructure and cybersecurity to building resilience in the society against radicalisation and extremism.

In its conclusions on “certain aspects of European preventive policing” of 6 June 2019, the JHA Council invites EU Member States “to make more efficient use of the existing legal framework at national and European level regarding the deployment of officers involved in joint patrols and other joint operations."

To better connect experts, tools, initiatives, and services in the area of digital data, Europol has been called on to develop a knowledge-sharing platform – the “Novel Actionable Information” (NAI).

At its meeting on 7 June 2019, the home affairs ministers of the EU Member States began discussing the future of EU policy in the area of internal security, especially law enforcement cooperation. The ministers concurred on the following fields of action:Effectively implementating …

On 24 July 2019, the European Commission presented its 19th “progress report towards an effective and genuine Security Union.” It focuses, in particular, on the following: the need for the Union’s co-legislators to deliver on pending legislative proposals; enhancement of digital infrastructure security in connection with the fifth generation (5G) networks; analysis of the current risks and vulnerabilities of the EU’s anti-money laundering framework...