2016 Brussels bombings

== Parliamentary inquiry ==
On 14 April 2016, the [[Belgian Federal Parliament]] established a commission of inquiry into the attacks and the failure of the security forces to prevent them. The commission was also given the task of examining the emergency response to the attacks and assistance to victims, the development of radicalism in Belgium, and the structure of the country's security services.<ref name=Brochure>{{cite web |url=https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/publications/attentats/Brochure_Terrorists_Attacks.pdf |title=Investigation committee Terrorist Attacks 22 March 2016: summary of the activities and recommendations |publisher=The Belgian House of Representatives |date=2018 |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808102201/https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/publications/attentats/Brochure_Terrorists_Attacks.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|11}} Between August 2016 and October 2017, the commission published four interim reports: "Emergency response"; "Assistance to the victims"; "Security architecture"; "Radicalism".{{r|Brochure|p=12}} The commission identified a number of problems with security forces: government and security forces running in parallel rather than together; faulty communications both within the country and with foreign counterparts of Belgian services; a failure to pay sufficient attention to proactive action and prevention of terrorism and radicalism; the underfunding of various security units; a lack of cooperation between units; a need for improved cooperation with European and international agencies; a proliferation of rules and procedures that threatened to exacerbate a lack of coherence in policy.{{r|Brochure|p=38-9}} The commission identified a need for security forces to strengthen information management and establish an information-sharing culture within and between the security services. Whilst some services had too little information others suffered from information overload.{{r|Brochure|p=43}} The commission's report also addressed a number of criticisms levelled at Belgium by the French parliamentary investigation into the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]].{{r|Brochure|p=59}}