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On 12 December 2024, the Council approved the first of two sets of conclusions on strengthening the common effort to counter terrorism. These conclusions set out strategic objectives and highlight key areas where increased efforts are needed to improve operational effectiveness. The aim is …

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.

After the previous PiS government had been replaced by the new Polish government under the leadership of Donald Tusk at the end of 2023, the reappraisal and reversal of judicial reforms in Poland that jeopardised the rule of law has started (→previous overview in eucrim …

This news item continues eucrim’s overview of worrying rule-of-law developments in Hungary as far as implications on Union law, in particular the protection of the EU’s financial interests, are concerned. It covers the period from 1 July to 31 December 2024. It follows up on the overview in eucrim 1/2024, 5-7 which covered developments in the first half of 2024.

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 …

This news item continues the reporting on the latest developments concerning the Digital Services Act. It covers the period from November 2024 to January 2025.

A comprehensive report released in November 2024 and commissioned by the European Commission has mapped and analyzed high-risk areas of corruption in the European Union. The study will feed the EU strategy against corruption, which is prepared by the Commission and will set out actions …

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.