In brief: The EU is creating a dedicated police cloud infrastructure and doubling Europol’s budget to three billion euros for 2028–2034 to accelerate police cooperation on cybercrime and terrorism.
The European Commission has submitted legislative proposals to expand the powers of Europol and Eurojust. At the core is a sovereign cloud infrastructure and a shared data space for real-time data exchange in cross-border investigations.
The European Commission has put forward concrete legislative proposals to strengthen European law enforcement infrastructure. The focus is on a sovereign cloud infrastructure and a Police Shared Data Space – a common data repository for law enforcement authorities of the Member States. These systems are designed to enable investigators to exchange data in real time, thereby accelerating cross-border investigations and prosecutions in the fight against organized crime, cybercrime and terrorism.
To finance this, the Commission plans to double Europol’s budget for the 2028 to 2034 programming period to a total of three billion euros. These funds are intended to double the agency’s personnel capacity and build technological capabilities. Additionally, the proposal provides for the establishment of a Technology and Innovation Centre to support national authorities in research and development of new police tools and to coordinate critical technology needs.
The proposals are still subject to formal approval by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union before they take legal effect. From a CISO perspective, the compliance and data protection aspects of this cloud infrastructure are central: the sovereign architecture aims to keep police data under European control while creating technical interoperability – a balancing act between security, sovereignty and regulatory governance that can influence one’s own security framework.
Source: www.it-daily.net · Published 26 June 2026
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