"A European intelligence agency would take too long to set up and distract from the urgent work currently needed to tackle terrorism, said the European Commission.... Calls for an agency reappeared earlier this week when
“A European intelligence agency would take too long to set up and distract from the urgent work currently needed to tackle terrorism, said the European Commission….
Calls for an agency reappeared earlier this week when the EU commissioner for migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said it would have helped prevent the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Belgium, France, Finland, Spain and the UK.”
See: EU intelligence agency not a priority (euobserver, link)