BERLIN, Jumada II 17, 1437, Mar 26, 2016, SPA -- Europe urgently needs to improve the way its security agencies share information, members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives were reported as saying, stoking a debate on how to tighten security while safeguarding data protection, Reuters reported. The suicide bombings in Brussels on Tuesday that killed 31 people and last November's attacks in Paris have highlighted weak links in information-sharing between Western intelligence services. "Faster communication is important so that tips about possible attacks can be quickly assessed and terrorist acts can be prevented if possible before they take place or cleared up in a more focused way," Germany's EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told the daily Bild. Oettinger, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, called for data protection rules to be standardised to make it possible for security agencies in other EU member states can access data. --SPA 15:36 LOCAL TIME 12:36 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w