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On 12 December 2024, the Council appointed the European Prosecutors for Poland and Sweden. Both countries have recently joined the EPPO with Poland being the 23rd EU Member State joining the EPPO (→eucrim 1/2024, 18) and Sweden the 24th (→eucrim 2/2024, …

At the beginning of January 2025, Ms Martyna Pospieszalska took up her two-year mandate as the new Liaison Prosecutor for the USA at Eurojust. Prior to starting her new position, Ms Pospieszalska had worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office …

At the beginning of January 2025, Mr Paweł Wąsik started his four-year mandate as the new National Member for Poland at Eurojust. Mr Wąsik's working experience at Eurojust dates back to 2016, when he joined the agency as assistant to the National Member for Poland. …

On 12 December 2024, Europol published its EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (EU TE-SAT). The report provides a detailed overview of the evolving terrorism landscape in the European Union in 2023. It also provides an outlook on potential developments.

With the Council Presidency assumed by Poland on 1 January 2025, a new cycle of trio presidencies with common political priorities started. Denmark and Cyprus will take over in the second half of 2025 and the first half of 2026, respectively.

Poland assumed the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the period from 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025 under the motto “Security, Europe!” The priorities of the Polish Presidency programme focus on supporting activities that strengthen European security in all its dimensions: external, internal, information, economic, energy, food and health.

Following a conflict of competence with the Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK), European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi sent a formal letter to the European Commission on 21 November 2024 expressing concern about violations of the rule of law …

On 12 December 2024, Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 of 27 November 2024 on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 was published in the Official Journal. The new legal framework will prohibit to place and make available on …

In a report, Europol examines how criminal networks abuse legal business structures to strengthen their power and expand their criminal operations. The report calls for a comprehensive, multi-layered strategy in order to counter the abuse of legal business structures.

On 17 December 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Opinion on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.