Agencies of the European Union

More than 30,000 illegally exported antiquities will be returned to Bulgaria after a joint operation of the Special Prosecutor's Office, the General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime, the General Directorate National Police and the Spanish police and judicial authorities, said the Special Prosecutor's Office.

Gender equality and economic independence of women represented some of the topics included on the agenda of talks on the second day of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) meeting in Bucharest, where Labour Minister Marius Budai underscored that the European Union policy on gender equality after 2019 should be strengthened, according to a release of the rel

Turkish authorities have assured their Greek counterparts that there is no reason for concern about a social media campaign aimed at encouraging thousands of undocumented migrants to cross the land border into Greece, Kathimerini understands.

The European Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), the European Union agency for cybersecurity headquartered at Iraklio in Crete, is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Tuesday.
Since 2004, ENISA has contributed to shaping the EU's response to the growing cyber-threats in the bloc.

The Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI) and the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) carried out several informal meetings on Wednesday and Thursday in Bucharest, in view of discussing the specific and unitary ways aimed at the citizens's safety in the European Union space.

Deputy Oana Florea, the head of the delegation of the Romanian Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG) on Europol, said on Monday that Romania is well regarded at Europol, having the second-largest number of employees, specializing mainly in IT and data analysis. Romania is well-regarded at Europol. We are on the second position by the number of employees.

A delegation of the National Assembly, headed by the Chairman of the Committee on Internal Security and Public Order, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, will participate in the Fourth Meeting of Europol's Joint Parliamentary Control Group, to be held in Bucharest on February 25, 2019.

The meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG) on Europol is to take place on 24 and 25 February in Bucharest, in the context of the parliamentary dimension of the Romanian presidency of the European Union's Council.

EU ambassadors on Wednesday agreed on a European Council's negotiating position on a regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard; on the basis of this mandate, the Romanian presidency of the Council will start negotiations with the European Parliament, Romania's Interior Ministry (MAI) reports in a press statement.

In 2014, Norwegian law enforcement authorities seized millions of encrypted files depicting sexual abuse of children. The seized material contained information that led Norwegian police to believe that two Norwegian suspects ran an orphanage in Bulgaria.