One of the EU's most important IT projects is facing a debacle: it involves the cross-European networking of several police and judicial databases in which fingerprints of migrants, visas or search requests are stored. In a new register, member states should also record all entries and exits from non-EU citizens.
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In a letter to the Bundestag, the Federal Ministry of the Interior doubts that the project will be completed by 2023 as originally planned. "A complete implementation of all projects in the EU timetable is currently not predictable," warns the Ministry. "There are resource shortages and overloading of the authorities involved" - also because it is difficult to attract the necessary specialist staff.
At the beginning of next week, the Ministers of Justice and European Union of the European Union want to deal with the problems of the 500 million euro project at a meeting in Luxembourg. Several criminal cases, such as the murder of a student in Freiburg in 2016 or the terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, revealed shortcomings in data exchange within the EU.
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