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The European Commission recommended opening negotiations for international agreements on the exchange of personal data to fight serious crime and terrorism between Europol and the competent authorities of five Latin American countries (Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico). At the beginning of May 2023, the EDPS …

Two years after the dismantling of the encrypted communications tool EncroChat, which had been widely used by organised crime groups (→eucrim news of 21 March 2021), law enforcement and judicial authorities are still reaping the rewards. On 27 June 2023, French and Dutch …

End of June 2023, the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights published its tenth annual report for 2022. The report outlines the main observations and recommendations that the Forum raised throughout the year with Frontex to strengthen fundamental rights protection in the agency's activities.

End of May 2023, Eurojust presented the agency's operational results in 2022. Eurojust contributed to the arrest of more than 4 000 suspects, the seizure/freezing of criminal assets worth almost €3 billion and the seizure of drugs worth almost €12 billion.

In his opinion of 15 June 2023 in Case C-755/21 P, Kočner v Europol, Advocate General Rantos concludes that EU law has introduced a system of joint and several liability between Europol and the Member State concerned for damage suffered as a result of …

Based on 82 evaluations, the fourth Joint Investigation Team Evaluation Report provides an overview of les­sons learned and best practices, gives insights into Eurojust’s experience with multilateral JITs, and reports on recent de­velopments in JITs and JITs-related case law.

The Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer released the annual report providing an overview of the monitoring and advisory activities performed in 2022.

The Europol Management Board adopted the Agency's updated corporate strategy. The document, entitled “Delivering Security in Partnership”, includes six strategic objectives.

The overall worrying geopolitical situation, in particular the Russian invasion of Ukraine also had effects on the development of cyberattacks and cyber-criminality, Europol's most recent IOCTA Report 2023 says.

On 3 July 2023, the newly created International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) officially started operation at Eurojust. Designed as a judicial hub embedded in Eurojust, the centre will support national investigations into the crime of aggression related …