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ECJ: No Obligation for Mutual Recognition of Decision Taken in Favour of a Person Requested for Extradition to a Third Country
On 19 June 2025, the ECJ ruled that an authority of an EU Member State is not obliged to mutually recognise a decision taken in another EU Member State that refused extradition of an individual to a third state. However, it must take due account of the reasons of this previous decision in its own assessment of a possible refusal on the ground of fundamental rights. Read more
Thomas Wahl
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
European Arrest Warrant
Judicial Cooperation
Operation ENDGAME Targets Initial Access Malware
At the end of May 2025, Operation ENDGAME, ongoing since 2024, led to the takedown of Initial Access Malware. This malware was being used for initial infection, helping cybercriminals to enter victims’ systems unnoticed and download more malware, such as ransomware, onto their devices. … Read more
Cornelia Riehle LL.M.
EU
Europol
Eurojust
Cybercrime
Judicial Cooperation
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Genocide Network Changes Name
At the end of May 2025, alongside the launch of a new logo, the network changed its short name from "Genocide Network" to "Genocide Prosecution Network". The network's secretariat is hosted at Eurojust since 2011. The change of the name clarifies that the network's focus is on providing support to investigations and prosecutions of core international crimes. Read more
EU
Eurojust
EPPO Cooperation with Latin American Countries
At the end of May 2025, the EPPO and the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP) signed an agreement to enhance their strategic cooperation. The EPPO also signed bilateral agreements with the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of six AIAMP members in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Costa … Read more
EU
European Public Prosectutor's Office (EPPO)
CoE Adopts 2025–2030 Environmental Strategy
The Council of Europe adopted its Strategy on the Environment 2025–2030, setting out a forward-looking vision that links environmental protection with the organisation’s core values of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Read more
Dr. Anna Pingen
Council of Europe
Environmental Crime
Statewatch: The EU Security AI Complex Must Be Questioned
In April 2025, Statewatch published a report entitled "Automating Authority - Artificial Intelligence in European Police and Border Regimes". The report explores the scene how police, border and criminal justice agencies take advantage of AI tools for their daily work and how the EU creates … Read more
EU
Fundamental Rights
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Police Cooperation
MEPs Block Interinstitutional Ethics Body
On 14 May 2025, the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) voted against the European Parliaments's participation in the interinstitutional ethics body. MEPs argued that argued that the body “would violate the presumption of innocence and publicly stigmatize politicians". Read more
EU
European Parliament
Corruption
Spotlight ECA Summarises its Criticism of Recovery and Resilience Facility
In its review "Performance-orientation, accountability and transparency – lessons to be learned from the weaknesses of the RRF", issued on 6 May 2025, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) takes another critical look at the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Read more
EU
Protection of Financial Interests
First EPPO Verdict in Dutch Court
In May 2025, the first verdict by a Dutch court was handed down in a case that was investigated and prosecuted by the EPPO in Rotterdam. The case concerned cross-border VAT carousel fraud related to trade with consumer electronics, causing an estimated damage of over … Read more
EU
European Public Prosectutor's Office (EPPO)
AG: EDPS Has Right to Act against Europol Regulation Amendments
In an opinion, delivered on 8 May 2025, Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona proposed that the European Data Protection Supervisor should have the right to action against amendments to the Europol Regulation concerning the processing of personal data by Europol. Read more
EU
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Europol
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
Spotlight First Monitoring Report of MEDICRIME Convention
On 2 April 2025, the first monitoring report on the implementation of the Council of Europe MEDICRIME Convention was released. The monitoring round has focused on the protection of public health through the MEDICRIME Convention in times of pandemics, including the COVID-19 crisis. The report identified measures in eight thematic areas, including prevention and training as well as investigations and prosecutions of the offences set up in the Convention. Read more
Council of Europe
Counterfeiting & Piracy
EDPS Annual Report 2024
On 23 April 2025, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) presented its Annual Report 2024, which reviews activities over the year organised under the headings of supervision and enforcement, policy and consultation, technology and privacy, and artificial intelligence. Read more
EU
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
Data Protection
ECJ: VAT Fraudster Must Be Surrendered to Spain
On 10 April 2025, the ECJ ruled in Case C-481/23 (Sangas) that the execution of a European arrest warrant (EAW) cannot be refused if it is intended solely to ensure that the requested person is present at resumed criminal proceedings in the issuing State, nor if there is no jurisdiction for the acts constituting the offence under the criminal law of the executing State. Read more
EU
European Arrest Warrant
ECJ: Surrender to UK Can Be Done Despite Hardening of Conditions for Release
On 3 April 2025, the ECJ ruled in Case C-743/24 (Alchaster II) that a hardening of the conditions for release on licence from custody against a requested person does not, in principle, preclude surrender of that person from an EU country to the UK. Read more
EU
Fundamental Rights
Judicial Cooperation
Civil Rights Organisations Criticise Predictive Policing Projects
In April 2025, civil liberties, human rights and justice organisations and experts voiced their concerns over the development of the use of predictive policing systems by national police forces and the concerning development of AI-supported automated police decision-making systems. Read more
EU
Fundamental Rights
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Digital Space Regulation
Police Cooperation
ECJ Ruled on the Rights of Vulnerable Persons in Criminal Proceedings
On 8 May 2025, the ECJ handed down a ruling on the scope of the rights of access to a lawyer and a vulnerable person's right to legal aid in line with Directive 2013/48 and Directive 2016/1919 (Case C-530/23, Barało). Read more
EU
Procedural Safeguards