Bij Europol scheen dit alles echter geen rol te spelen. De taken van deze dienst worden door de regeringen onderling vastgesteld, en niet door de Raad in een meerderheidsprocedure. ###>None of this, though, seemed to have anything to do with Europol, an office whose tasks are decided on by the governments among themselves rather than by a majority in the Council, which is, by the way, itself not exactly the epitome of transparency and democracy.