EU national parliaments will create a Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG) to monitor Europol activities, with each member state obliged to nominate up to four members, according to an agreement reached by representatives of EU parliaments at a summit in Bratislava on Monday. Regardless of the number of members, each country will be entitled to one vote in this group. The European Parliament will be represented by 16 members in it, which is slated to be called into session twice a year; once in Brussels and once in a presiding country. The first session has already been scheduled for the autumn of 2017, with the Slovak Parliament authorised to choose representatives on behalf of Slovakia.
Anca Dragu, Photo: AP/TASR
