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Europol Tackles Violence-as-a-Service
In response to the growing trend of Violence-as-a-Service (VaaS) and the recruitment of young people into serious organised crime, Europol launched a new Operational Taskforce named GRIMM at the end of April 2025. VaaS often involves young perpetrators who carry out threats, assaults, or killings … Read more
Cornelia Riehle LL.M.
EU
Europol
Cybercrime
Organised Crime
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Overview of the Latest Developments on the DSA: February-April 2025
This news item continues the reporting on the latest developments concerning the DSA in the form of a chronological overview. It covers the period from February to April 2025. Read more
Dr. Anna Pingen
Thomas Wahl
EU
Digital Space Regulation
Bavarian Court: 2022 Border Check near German-Austrian Border Unlawful
On 17 March 2025, the Bavarian Administrative Court followed the arguments put forth by the CJEU and declared an identity check, which took place against a German law professor in June 2022, to be not compliant with the Schengen Borders Code and thus unlawful. Read more
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Schengen
Overview of the Latest Developments on the DMA: January-April 2025
This news item continues the overview of latest developments on the EU's Digital Markets Act - the EU's flagship regulation for gatekeepers in order to ensure contestable and fair markets in the digital sector. Read more
EU
Legislation
Digital Space Regulation
EU-SOCTA 2025
The new Europol report on serious and organised crime threats identified key criminal activities, the dynamics of criminal networks, and emerging trends in the EU. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Organised Crime
Law Enforcement Cooperation
ECA: EU Money Granted to NGOs Still Not Transparent
According to the European Court of Auditor's report no 11/2025, EU funding granted to NGOs remains opaque, in particular due to a lack of sufficient information and of adequate checks on NGOs' status and compliance with EU values. Read more
EU
Protection of Financial Interests
2025 State of Schengen Report
On 23 April 2025, the European Commission presented the 2025 State of Schengen Report, reviewing the functioning of the world’s largest area of free movement over the past year and outlining the priorities for the next year. The report comes ahead of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Schengen Agreement. Read more
EU
Schengen
Commission
ECA: Simplified EU Customs Procedures Vulnerable to VAT Fraud
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) believes that simplified import customs procedures in the EU are vulnerable to VAT fraud. This is the main conclusion of a special report published on 24 March 2025. Read more
EU
Protection of Financial Interests
Tax Evasion
Customs Cooperation
ECA: Weak Compliance with Public Procurement and State Aid Rules for Money Spent under the RRF
The Commission still cannot be certain that EU countries have effective systems to ensure that the EU’s €650 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) complies with public procurement and state aid rules. This is the main message of a new ECA report published on 10 March 2025. Read more
EU
Protection of Financial Interests
Denmark Blamed for Non-Implementation of GRECO Recommendations
On 7 April 2025, a high-level delegation of GRECO urged Danish officials to take measures in order to implement recommendations from GRECO's fourth and fifth round evaluation reports. GRECO particularly called on Denmark to fully implement GRECO’s recommendations to prevent corruption and strengthen integrity within … Read more
Council of Europe
Corruption
New In-Depth Analysis on the European Ecstasy Market
On 27 March 2025, Europol and the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) published their latest study on the European market for MDMA (ecstasy), covering aspects from production and trafficking to distribution and use. Read more
EU
Europol
Organised Crime
Smart Border Control Technologies: Results of METICOS Project
On 25 April 2025, DG HOME shared information about the outcome of the METICOS project. It assessed the potential to provide border management organisations with evidence-based decision-making tools that balance security with traveller privacy. Read more
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Security Union
Commission
CJEU: Judicial Statistics 2024
On 21 March 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its judicial statistics for the year 2024. In total, 1,706 new cases were brought before and 1,785 cases were completed by the Court of Justice (ECJ) and the General Court. … Read more
EU
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Partial Renewal of the Judges of the General Court
On 26 March 2025, in view of the terms of twenty-six judges expiring on 31 August 2025, representatives of the governments of the EU Member States appointed thirteen judges to the General Court of the EU as part of a partial renewal.For the remainder … Read more
EU
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Spotlight Commission Presents ProtectEU: the New EU Internal Security Strategy
On 1 April 2025, the European Commission presented a Communication entitled "ProtectEU: a European Internal Security Strategy". The Strategy outlines a comprehensive set of measures that are planned to be initiated and implemented in the current term of the Commission in order to strengthen the EU's internal security. Read more
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Security Union
Europol
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Council Concluded EU-Canada PNR Agreement
On 14 April 2025, the Council of the European Union concluded, on behalf of the Union, the Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data. Read more
EU
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Data Protection