Interior Minister Dragutin Mate and police director general Joze Romsek presented the priorities of Slovenia's EU presidency in talks on Monday with Max-Peter Ratzel, the director of the European police office Europol.
Talks also touched on changes to the legal framework governing the work of Europol and Slovenia's initiative to phase in Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA) for Southeast Europe, the Interior Ministry said in a press release. The main task of the OCTA is to identify and assess emerging threats. It describes the structure of organised crime groups and the way they operate as well as the main types of crime affecting the EU.
In what was the second meeting of the trio in three months, the officials reportedly said they were satisfied with Europol cooperation with the Slovenian Interior Ministry and the police.
Mate also met today Dutch Interior Minister Guusje ter Horst, Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin and State Secretary for Justice Nebahat Albayrak, who is also in charge of migration.
The minister acquainted the officials with interior policy topics Slovenia is to focus on during its spell as EU president, including migration, asylum, managing the EU external border, police cooperation under the Pruem Treaty, and cooperation between police forces from the countries of Western Balkans and EU members.
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