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On 13 October 2025, the JHA Council adopted a decision authorising the European Commission and EU Member States to sign the United Nations Convention against cybercrime. The Convention was adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2024 and opened for signature on 25 …

On 13 October 2025, the justice ministers of the EU Member States held a political debate on the future of Eurojust at the JHA Council meeting. They provided political guidance to the European Commission for a possible revision of the Eurojust Regulation following the evaluation …

The German Federal Bar (Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer, BRAK) - the umbrella organisation of the 28 German regional Bars - criticised the German government's plans to implement two important EU laws in the field of criminal law and cooperation.Looking at the draft bill for the …

In an open letter, 470 civil society organisations, trade unions and public interest groups call on the European Commission and the EU Member States to stop the policy of deregulation. According to the letter published on 9 September 2025, the EU's deregulation agenda risks …

On 4 November 2025, the European Commission appointed Petr Klement, currently European Prosecutor for Czechia, as new Director-General of OLAF. He succeeds Ville Itälä whose seven-year term of office ended on 31 July 2025.

On 3 September 2025, the General Court (GC) dismissed an action seeking annulment of the Commission’s adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 (Decision EU 2023/1795), namely that the United States of America ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

This news item continues the reporting on key EU/CoE reactions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022: the impact on the protection of the EU’s financial interests, on the EU’s internal security policy, and on criminal law. The overview covers the period from late April to October 2025 and follows the reports in eucrim 1/2025, 6-7.

The EU's ne bis in idem principle prevents a person from being punished for individual terrorist acts if that person has already been punished by another Member State for involvement in a terrorist association with a view to preparing a terrorist act. This is the main statement in the ECJ's ruling of 11 September 2025 in Case C-802/23 (MSIG).

In his opinion of 26 June 2025 on a case concerning the interpretation of the EIO Directive's provisions of videoconference hearings and the temporary transfer of persons in custody, AG Rantos advises that the ECJ strengthens the position of the issuing authority from Italy and declares incompatible the refusal by the executing Belgian authorities.

According to the ECJ's ruling of 10 July 2025 in WBS GmbH, an administrative authority that investigates crimes can be treated as "issuing authority" within the meaning of the EIO Directive, even if certain investigative measures sought (involving an interference with the fundamental rights of the person concerned) must, in accordance with national law, first be authorised by a judicial authority.