At least, the EU Commission hopes so in a new strategy for internal security, dubbed Protect EU.
Tuesday's package consists of a whole battery of new action plans, roadmaps, and concrete proposals to be presented over the coming years.
The threats today are great, global, and increasingly online, says EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen at a press conference in Strasbourg.
Among other things, a new mandate for Europol is promised, which the Commission wants to give a greater role in investigating large-scale cross-border crime.
The strategy also includes continued work to get member states and the EU Parliament to agree on new rules to combat sexual abuse of children online. The proposal has been controversial for several years and has been seen by opponents as involving too much surveillance of, for example, email.
