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At the beginning of April 2024, Europol presented its first report on the most threatening criminal networks operating in the EU. With the aim of deepening our understanding of the key characteristics of these networks, the report "Decoding the EU’s most threatening criminal networks …

After three years of hard and complex negotiations, the European Parliament and the Council formally adopted the new Pact on Migration and Asylum in May 2024. It is one of the most important EU legislations in the area of home affairs in the recent years and follows a holistic approach: introducing a new legislative framework on migration and asylum while supporting Member States through operational and targeted actions.

In May 2024, Frontex published Guidelines for European Common Minimum Standards for Border Surveillance (CMS). The guidelines have identified commonalities concerning air, land, and maritime border surveillance; they address the main process phases - preparedness, prevention, and reaction - that make up border surveillance in …

In mid-June 2024, a major operation shared between law enforcement and judicial authorities across Europe and in the United States led to the take-down of numerous servers used for terrorist communication and propaganda as well as to the arrests of nine persons. The websites and …

Between 27 and 29 May 2024, with the support of Europol and Eurojust, authorities from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and many more EU and non-EU States as well as private partners conducted the largest ever operation against botnets: Operation Endgame. The action included arrests, …

On 23 May 2024, the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights published its annual report for the year 2023. It outlines the Forum's main observations and recommendations shared with Frontex and its Management Board, with the aim of strengthening fundamental rights protection in Frontex …

The FRA’s most recent Fundamental Rights Report (published in June 2024) analyses last year's developments in fundamental rights. True to its name “Towards a democracy anchored in fundamental rights”, the report focuses on key developments and shortfalls of fundamental rights protection in 2023. In addition, …

In June 2024, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), together with the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), prepared a factsheet on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) and the EU Member States' obligations to respect fundamental rights. The factsheet highlights jurisprudence in selected …

On 29 February 2024, the European Commission confirmed Poland's participation in the enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the EPPO (COM Decision (EU) 2024/807). The Decision entered into force twenty days after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU. Poland notified …

On 1 May 2004, the EU experienced its largest single enlargement in terms of countries and people - with the accession of ten new Member States: Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.To mark the 20th anniversary of the …