Pittella on terrorism committee: Improving information sharing is smart. Creating an unnecessary new committee is not.

Speaking after a joint call from the leaders of the EPP and ALDE Groups in the European Parliament on creating a special committee on terrorism, S&D Group president Gianni Pittella said:

“We fully support the aim of improving cooperation and information sharing between member states, however we have seen no evidence that a special committee would help achieve this. We already have a civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee covering these issues. Creating a completely new committee makes absolutely no sense. It will duplicate work and waste time and money.

“Guy Verhofstadt and Manfred Weber have not said anything new today but are simply trying to exploit a very serious situation in order to score cheap political gains. Shame on them.”