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On 2 October 2025, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) published a Guide on the Use of Generative AI by Lawyers. It aims to raise awareness regarding the use of generative AI (GenAI) in legal practice and to highlight the …

On occasion of the presentation of the 2025 Rule of Law Report (→ eucrim 2/2025, 107-108) on 23 September 2025, MEPs from the LIBE Committee and the EU Commissioner for Justice Michael McGrath discussed ways to strengthen the conditionality in the next multiannual financial …

On 5 December 2025, the European Commission imposed a €120 million fine on X after concluding that the platform had breached several transparency duties under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This is the first non-compliance decision adopted since the DSA entered into force. The Commission determined that X had violated three core obligations.

On 19 November 2025, the General Court (GC) delivered its judgment in Amazon EU Sàrl v Commission (T-367/23), dismissing Amazon’s challenge to its designation as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The biennial EJN activity and management report, released in November 2025, provides a comprehensive overview of the support delivered by EJN Contact Points to national judicial authorities in cross-border judicial cooperation in 2023 and 2024.

In mid-October 2025, Frontex released a comprehensive blueprint report designed to improve the connectivity, interoperability, and future readiness of Europe’s border security systems. The new European Border Surveillance Reference Architecture (EBS-RA) aims to help EU Member States share information more effectively, modernise outdated systems, and derive greater value from surveillance capabilities.

On 25 September 2025, the Danish Council Presidency and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on legislation to strengthen Europol’s mandate with regard to preventing, detecting, and investigating migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings (THB).

On 17 September 2025, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a new report examining the discrimination, harassment, violence, and non-consensual medical interventions experienced by intersex persons in 30 European countries. The report found distinct results and trends compared with the previous survey conducted in 2019.

During its plenary session, held from 12 to 14 November 2025 in Strasbourg (France), the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) adopted Opinion No. 28 (2025) on the importance of judicial well-being for the delivery of justice. The Opinion examines how the well-being of …

Most of the 33 jurisdictions that are subject to MONEYVAL's evaluation procedures have made progress in 2024 aligning their anti-money laundering/countering of terrorism financing laws to FATF standards in a number of areas. However, significant shortcomings remain to be addressed in other key areas. This …