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On 27 June 2025, Frontex and Poland's Ministry of the Interior signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new training centre for future European border guards. To allow for proximity to Frontex's headquarters, which Poland has hosted in Warsaw for 20 years, the new …

On 20 May 2025, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released an updated version of its online criminal detention database. Originally launched in 2019, the database provides information about detention conditions in EU countries.

At its meeting on 13 June 2025, the Council identified seven EU crime priorities for the EMPACT cycle 2026-2029. EMPACT stands for the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats. It introduces an integrated approach to EU internal security.

The Kingdom of Denmark assumed the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the period from 1 July to 31 December 2025. Under the slogan “A Strong Europe in a changing world!”, the programme of the Danish Presidency has two overarching priorities: a secure Europe and a competitive and green Europe.

On 9 July 2025, approximately nine months after jurisdiction to rule on references for a preliminary ruling was conferred on it, the General Court of the European Union delivered its first preliminary ruling judgment. The case concerned the recovery of excise duties and the compatibility of Croatian law with an EC Directive.

At the end of May 2025, the European Judicial Network (EJN) and the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance their cooperation in the fight against transnational crime and the globalisation of crime. Cooperation between the parties may include …

In a judgment handed down at the beginning of April 2025, the ECJ ruled that procedural acts of the EPPO capable of affecting the legal situation of persons challenging them must be amenable to judicial review. It is, however, up to the national court to determine whether or not this is the case - by means of a concrete and specific examination.

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.

The year 2024 marked the conclusion of the EDPS Strategy 2020–2024, which aimed to shape a safer, fairer, and more sustainable digital Europe (→eucrim 1/2020, 102). To this end, on 6 March 2025, the EDPS published a review of its activities during this …

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 …