Brussels, 2 October 2024
From today to Friday, 4th October, the Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, and the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, will be in Mirabella Eclano (Avellino), Italy, to participate in the G7 interior Ministers’ Meeting on behalf of the European Union.
Together with the Ministers for Home Affairs and Security, as well as senior officials from G7 countries, the Vice-President and the Commissioner will participate in the panel meetings on the following topics: threats from international crisis situations including the security threats stemming from Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine; cybersecurity and virtual assets; synthetic drugs; artificial intelligence, as well as migration, with a particular focus on migrant smuggling.
In the margins of the Ministerial, Commissioner Johansson, together with the Canadian Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, Dominic Leblanc, is due to sign an agreement for the transfer of passenger name records (PNR) data. This agreement aims to strengthen the EU’s security by allowing to safely share the data of passenger by carriers operating passenger flights between the EU and Canada.
Vice-President Schinas and Commissioner Johansson will deliver statements on Thursday morning that will be transmitted on EbS.