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New Reporting Series Kicked Off
In mid-June, Europol published its first report in a new series called “Europol Specialist Reporting”. The first report, published by Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre, looks at women in Islamic State propaganda. Read more
Cornelia Riehle LL.M.
EU
Europol
Terrorism
Cooperation with NTT Security
On 13 June 2019, Europol and NTT Security signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their efforts against cybercrime. Read more
EU
Europol
Cybercrime
Law Enforcement Cracks Down on GrandGrab
European and international law enforcement agencies released a decryption tool for the latest version of the most prolific ransomware family GrandCrab. Read more
EU
Europol
Cybercrime
Operation OPSON Seizes Fake Food and Drink Products
From December 2018 to April 2019, Europol’s Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated Coalition and INTERPOL coordinated Operation OPSON, which resulted in the seizure of some 16,000 tonnes and 33 million litres of potentially dangerous fake food and drink products. Read more
EU
Europol
Counterfeiting & Piracy
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2019
The EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2019 (TE-SAT 2019) was recently published. It outlines the latest developments with regard to jihadist terrorism, ethno-nationalist and separatist terrorism, left-wing and anarchist terrorism, right-wing terrorism, and single-issue terrorism. Read more
EU
Europol
Terrorism
New Task Force to Combat Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings
On 2 July 2019, Europol launched a new task force to strengthen its fight against criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling and trafficking of human beings. Read more
EU
Europol
Organised Crime
Liaison Office Opened in Tirana
On 11 July 2019, Europol officially opened its first liaison office in the Western Balkans, namely in Tirana, Albania. Read more
EU
Europol
Europol 20th Anniversary Website
In view of the 20th anniversary, Europol created a dedicated subpage on its website offering information on its history in an interactive way. Read more
EU
Europol
Death of Advocate General Yves Bot
Advocate General Yves Bot passed away on 9 June 2019. He served as Public Prosecutor at the Regional Court of Paris and later as Principal State Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of Paris. He had been Advocate General at the CJEU since 7 … Read more
EU
European Court of Justice (ECJ)
Judge Egils Levits Resigns
Egils Levits resigned as Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU following his election as President of the Republic of Latvia on 29 May 2019. He had served as Judge at the CJEU since 11 May 2004. Read more
EU
European Court of Justice (ECJ)
Finnish Presidency Programme
On 1 July 2019, Finland took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In its programme, the Finnish Presidency underlines the need to comprehensively protect the security of EU citizens through, inter alia, cooperation in security and defence. The key … Read more
EU
Council
Spotlight Commission Presents New Concept to Strengthen Rule of Law
On 17 July 2019, the European Commission adopted a set of actions to further strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Key aspects are increased awareness, an annual monitoring cycle, and more effective enforcement. Read more
Thomas Wahl
EU
Fundamental Rights
Rule of Law
Report
Europäisches Strafrecht nach der österreichischen Ratspräsidentschaft
Konferenz der Österreichischen Vereinigung für Europäisches Strafrecht
On 7 March 2019, the Austrian Association of European Criminal Law together with the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Federal Justice Ministry organized a one-day conference on European Criminal law after the 2018 Austrian Council Presidency. The event raised great interest by many scholars and practitioners and covered three main topics. Read more
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Judicial Cooperation
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Report
Report on the HERCULE III Project “Criminal law protection of the financial interests of the EU” of the University of Miskolc, Faculty of Law
The general objective of the project was to protect the EU's financial interests and to prevent and combat fraud, corruption, and other illicit activities. In this context, the project focused on new practical challenges, e.g. cybercrime. One of the main events was the Winter Academy “Current questions and answers relating to the criminal law protection of the financial interests of the European Union” from 14–16 February 2019 at the Hungarian Judicial Academy. Read more
EU
Corruption
Cybercrime
Money Laundering
Protection of Financial Interests
Who Will Recover Jeffrey Epstein’s Assets?
With the death of American financier Jeffrey Epstein on 10 August 2019, who faced federal charges for sex trafficking, the Government’s criminal case against him comes to an end and so does the effort to recover his assets and distribute them to the victims as … Read more
Stefan D. Cassella
Freezing of Assets / Confiscation
NGO Sees Lack of Key Safeguards in Planned E-Evidence Legislation
The plans to establish new rules that enable law enforcement authorities to directly seek the preservation and production of electronically stored data held by private service providers (the “e-evidence proposals”, see eucrim 1/2018, 35-36) face further criticism from civil stakeholders. In February 2019, Fair … Read more
EU
Law Enforcement Cooperation