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Since 25 May 2020, the Court of Justice of the EU has resumed holding hearings at its premises in Luxembourg. The hearings are subject to strict hygiene and social distancing protocols.

Europol published the 4th Annual Report on its European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC), looking at its 2019 activities to counter facilitated illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings. Key findings of the report in the area of migrant smuggling underline that border control …

European Parliamentary Research Service published the second part of the evaluation on implementation of the FD EAW. The comprehensive study report of June 2020 (by Dr. Wouter van Ballegooij) presents conclusions on implementation of the FD EAW and makes recommendations as to how to address the shortcomings identified.

On 12 February 2020, Moneyval published its fifth round evaluation report on the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. MONEYVAL calls on the authorities of Gibraltar to better use the tools and mechanisms they have in place to combat ML and FT.The financial sector in …

On 12 February 2020, MONEYVAL published its fifth round evaluation report on the effectiveness of the Cypriot anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime and its level of compliance with FATF Recommendations. MONEYVAL calls on the Cypriot authorities to take a …

On 29 January 2020, the ECtHR published its annual activity report and statistics for 2019. At the close of 2019, the number of applications pending before the Court totalled 59,800. The majority of pending cases were against the Russian Federation (25.2 %), followed by cases …

On 27 March 2020, the ECtHR provided insight into its activities during the unprecedented global health crisis. Since 16 March 2020, the Court has taken a number of exceptional measures announced in an earlier press release. Its essential activities, including the registering of incoming …

On 18 February 2020 GRECO published an ad hoc report under Rule 34 on Slovenia. During its 83rd General Assembly (21 June 2019), GRECO was alerted to possible political interference by the legislative branch in relation to public officials, prosecutors, and judges in Slovenia …

On 24 March 2020 GRECO published its fifth round evaluation report on Croatia. GRECO recognises the available anti-corruption tools but calls for improvements in legislation and practice. Among the key challenges, integrity standards should also apply to persons working for the government in an …

On 23 January 2020, GRECO published its fifth round evaluation report on Belgium. The lack of an integrity policy or ethical framework for ministers and staff members of their private offices emerged as the most striking problem. There are few regulations on incompatibilities and …