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In July and August 2026, several new appointments were made at Eurojust.On 11 August 2026, Flavia Roy took up her duties as Liaison Prosecutor for Switzerland at Eurojust. She had already been working at Eurojust since November 2024 as Deputy Liaison Prosecutor and is …

In July 2026, Europol released Season 4 of The Europol Podcast, offering insights from experts of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) into some of the most pressing cybercrime threats currently facing the EU. The episodes build on expert sessions examining key findings of Europol’s …

The EU’s interim rules allowing platforms – on a voluntary basis – to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in private communications have been reinstated by Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 of 24 July 2026. The Regulation was published in the Official Journal on 28 July …

On 26 June 2026, Europol published its second in-depth assessment of the EU’s most threatening criminal networks (MTCNs). A key new insight of the assessment is that MTCNs should not be understood as isolated entities, but as part of a fluid and interconnected criminal ecosystem.

On 16 July 2026, Europol and Frontex signed a new Working Arrangement, reinforcing cooperation between the two agencies in tackling migrant smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, and other cross-border crime.

This article reflects on the future direction of EU criminal policy in light of the discussions held at the High-Level Forum on the Future of EU Criminal Justice (HLF). It proceeds from the premise that EU criminal law forms an integral part of the broader …

This article examines the impact of digitalisation, mass surveillance, and artificial intelligence (AI) on procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings in the context of the developments in the EU’s Area of Freedoms, Security and Justice. The author argues that contemporary surveillance capacities are changing the way …