On 24 April 2026, Eurojust published its Annual Report for 2025 highlighting a continued expansion of the Agency’s operational activities, judicial cooperation work, and international role in combating serious cross-border crime. The report has been published both as a pdf version for download and as an online version.

Key figures and operational activities

• In 2025, Eurojust handled almost 14000 cases, representing an increase of nearly 60 % compared to 2020, when 8 799 cases were registered.
• For the first time, Eurojust registered a record number of 28 own-initiative cases.
• The most common crime types addressed by the Agency were swindling and fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering, which together accounted for approximately two thirds of all cases handled in 2025.
• Detailed statistics are provided in the report for a broad range of crime areas, including cybercrime, migrant smuggling, trafficking in human beings, corruption, terrorism, environmental crime and intellectual property crime.

Judicial cooperation and coordination

Eurojust continued to support national prosecutors and investigative authorities through a broad range of judicial cooperation instruments, including:

• European Investigation Orders (48.1 % of open cases in 2025); mutual legal assistance requests (29.7 %); European Arrest Warrants and extradition proceedings (7.4 %); freezing and confiscation orders (5.2 %); conflicts of jurisdiction and transfers of proceedings (at least 4.3 %); and an increasing number of transfers of sentenced persons.
• The number of coordination meetings organised by Eurojust has steadily increased over the past five years, reaching 653 meetings in 2025. Economic crimes accounted for the highest number of coordination meetings (258), followed by drug trafficking (119) and cybercrime (102).

Joint Investigation Teams, EIOs and EAWs

• Eurojust supported 11 % more Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) than in 2024.
• In total, the Agency facilitated 412 JITs in 2025, approximately one third of which were newly established during the year. The majority of newly established JITs concerned drug trafficking and money laundering cases.
• Eurojust also continued to support national authorities throughout all stages of the European Investigation Order process, from drafting to execution. A total of 6711 Eurojust cases, including 2751 new cases, involved an EIO, representing an increase of almost 7% compared to the previous year.
• The number of cases involving European Arrest Warrants handled by the Agency increased by approximately 6 % compared to 2024.

International role and external cooperation

In 2025, Eurojust further reinforced its role in international cooperation and the global fight against crime. The Agency’s international network currently includes 80+ contact points worldwide; 13 cooperation agreements and 12 working arrangements with third countries and international organisations; and 12 liaison prosecutors.

• In 2025, Eurojust welcomed the conclusion of the cooperation agreement between the EU and Lebanon.
• The Agency also concluded new strategic Working Arrangements with Egypt, South Korea, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay and Uruguay.
• Furthermore, previously concluded Working Arrangements continued to prove effective, as the number of judicial assistance requests channelled through Eurojust more than tripled in 2025 compared to 2024.

Victims’ rights

Protecting victims’ rights remained a key priority in Eurojust’s operational and strategic activities. In 2025, the Agency placed particular emphasis on the identification and definition of victims in a cross-border context. In cases handled by Eurojust during the year, at least 3.1 million crime victims were affected. Accordingly, victims’ rights featured prominently in a number of conferences, meetings and publications organised or supported by the Agency in 2025.

Evaluation of the Eurojust Regulation

The year 2025 was also marked by the publication, in July 2025, of the European Commission’s first evaluation of the Eurojust Regulation, covering its implementation between the end of 2019 and 2024 (→eucrim 2/2025, pp 130-131). The evaluation assessed the effectiveness of the Regulation and the extent to which its objectives had been achieved in practice. Following the evaluation, the European Commission launched preparations for an impact assessment aimed at strengthening Eurojust’s mandate and enhancing the Agency’s capacity to respond to the evolving international dimensions of organised crime and hybrid threats.