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Justice and Home Affairs Ministers Agree on Approaches to Several Legislative Dossiers
At their meeting on 9/10 June 2022, the Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of the EU Member States agreed on their positions on several legislative proposals that are in the pipeline in the area of freedom, security and justice. In detail, the agreements concern: …
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
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Commission Progress Report on Security Strategy Focuses on Threats from Russia’s War
On 25 May 2022, the Commission presented its fourth progress report on the implementation of the EU Security Union Strategy. It is the first one from progress reports published at regular intervals that takes into account the threats to EU internal safety and security resulting from the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
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EP: EU Needs Strong Auditing and Monitoring Mechanism for Recovery and Resilience Facility
On 23 June 2022, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The resolution aimed to provide EP’s input to a review process regarding the progress of the RRF implementation.
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
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MEPs Dissatisfied with Progress in Rule-of-Law Procedures against Poland and Hungary
In a resolution of 5 May 2022, the European Parliament (EP) reiterated its dissatisfaction with the progress of the ongoing Article 7 TEU procedures against Poland and Hungary. The resolution – adopted with 426 to 133 votes (and 37 abstentions) – calls on the …
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
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ECBA Requests Mutual Recognition of Certain Extradition Decisions in Favour of Individual
In June 2022, the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) published a statement on mutual recognition of extradition decisions. The statement deals with the situation that individuals have currently no means or legal remedies to successfully and effectively challenge Interpol Red Notices or alerts in …
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
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Tenth EU Justice Scoreboard Shows Need to Restore Trust of the Public in the Judicial Systems
On 19 May 2022, the Commission published the tenth edition of the EU Justice Scoreboard. The Scoreboard presents an annual comparative overview of the effectiveness of the national judicial systems of the EU Member States. The Scoreboard showed that challenges remain to ensure full trust of citizens in the legal systems of all Member States.
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
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Take-Down of RaidForums
At the beginning of April 2022, Operation TOURNIQUET resulted in the successful take-down of the illegal marketplace ‘RaidForums’, one of the world’s biggest hacker forums selling access to high-profile database leaks. These leaks mainly belonged to several US corporations and contained information for millions of …
Published 4 years ago
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Europol's Executive Director Reappointed
Ms. Catherine De Bolle has been appointed for a second term as Executive Director of Europol. The Executive Director of Europol is appointed for a four-year period, extendable once. Ms. De Bolle’s first term started in May 2018 (→ news of 20 October 2018) …
Published 4 years ago
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Financial Investigations in Relation to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
On 11 April 2022, Europol together with EU Member States, Eurojust and Frontex launched Operation Oskar, an umbrella operation comprising several investigations in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Operation Oskar supports the freezing of criminal assets owned by individuals and entities that …
Published 4 years ago
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Social Media Platforms Launched
On 28 April 2022, the EDPS launched a pilot phase of two social media platforms named EU Voice and EU Video.While EU Voice is offering an official ActivityPub microblogging platform, EU Video is offering an official ActivityPub video platform of the EU institutions, bodies …
Published 4 years ago