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On 27 November 2025, Europol provided an overview of the results of the operation codenamed LUDUS. LUDUS is an annual operation that focuses on preventing the distribution of fake and unsafe toys in the EU market. Between 2024 and 2025, more than 7.8 million counterfeit and dangerous toys have been seized by customs authorities.

This news item highlights key cases that demonstrate OLAF's operational work between September and December 2025. It follows reports on operations supported by OLAF in the first seven months of 2025 (→eucrim 2/2025, 125-126), including the Office's cooperation with the EPPO. The following overview is in reverse chronological order.

In its judgment of 18 December 2025 in infringement proceedings C-448/23 brought by the European Commission against Poland, the ECJ's Grand Chamber postulate that national constitutional courts cannot override the primacy of EU law either by invoking their respective constitutional identity or by means of ultra vires review.

On 18 December 2025, the plenary session of the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime. After the Conditionality Regulation came into force five years ago, the EP takes stock and draws attention to deficiencies in its implementation. A series of recommendations for improvement are made.

In a special report released on 15 December 2025, the ECA concluded that cooperation between the EPPO and OLAF is affected by inefficient information exchange and the European Commission's oversight of repayments to the EU budget is insufficient.

This news item summarises the report of the High-Level Forum on the Future of EU Criminal Justice. The forum, which brought together officials from the EU Member States, the EU institutions and JHA bodies as well as respresenatives from academia, legal practice and civil society, discussed how a vision of European criminal law can be shaped. The report synthesises the key insights raised during the four plenary meetings held in 2025.

On 10 December 2025, delegations from EU Member States and partner countries, as well as international organisations approved a Joint Declaration reaffirming their commitment to strengthen international cooperation against migrant smuggling. The Declaration sets out joint ways to tackle illegal migration and THB alongside three main pillars.

In the framework of EMPACT, the EU strengthened law enforcement activities against sanctions evasion. Europol launched a new team within its European Financial and Economic Crime Centre to target the circumvention of sanctions following Russia's war against Ukraine. First successful results were achieved by a joint action against illicit vehicle exports to Russia.

Europol and the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC, a specialist research institute based at Sheffield Hallam University, UK) developed a new digital platform called “Help4U” to support children and teenagers experiencing sexual abuse or online harm. …

At the end of November 2025, Europol and Eurojust helped German and Swiss authorities during a coordinated action week in Zurich that led to the takedown of the illegal cryptocurrency mixing service “Cryptomixer”. The service is suspected of having facilitated cybercrime and money laundering since …