"Think of a hot-button technology issue: online radicalisation; counterterrorism; fake news; cybersecurity; 5G networks safety. There is a good chance that Julian King is the EU official in charge of that issue. Of the 22 Security Union laws proposed under King’s stewardship, 15 have been passed and one was in the final stages of approval at the time of writing. Lucinda Creighton, a senior adviser from the Counter Extremism Project NGO says that King has 'grasped the nettle', often tapping into his diplomatic skills to build consensus among all the EU institutions around new regulation. 'He came in as somebody who really wanted to put his mark on the commissioner job and to make it relevant,' Creighton says. 'He wanted to create something of a legacy, and I think that that with at least two, three [measures he sponsored] he’s come very close to having done that.'"