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On 26 February 2026, the Council strengthened the EU’s counterterrorism sanctions regime by expanding the scope of the EU terrorist list and updating its legal framework.

On 26 February 2026, the European Commission presented a new ProtectEU agenda to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism in the EU. The agenda aims to update the Union’s response to an evolving threat landscape, including online radicalisation, the growing involvement of minors, the misuse of new technologies, and increasing links between terrorism, organised crime, and hostile foreign interference.

The ECJ has clarified the legal status of binding decisions adopted under the GDPR’s consistency mechanism, holding that decisions of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) that resolve disputes between national supervisory authorities constitute acts open to challenge before the EU Courts. In its 10 …

On 20 January 2026, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted Joint Opinion 1/2026 on the Commission’s proposal for a Digital Omnibus on AI, which seeks to simplify the implementation of the AI Act. The proposal was tabled …

UNESCO has launched a free online course on artificial intelligence and its use in judicial systems. The programme, entitled AI, Justice, and the Rule of Law, was developed together with the Saïd Business School, the Blavatnik School of Government, and the Faculty of Law …

On 20 March 2026, the CJEU published its judicial statistics for the year 2025. It is confirmed that the Court operates at a very high level of activity while improving efficiency, particularly through reduced procedural duration and structural reforms.

Twice a year, the Council decides which countries and territories are to be blacklisted as non-cooperative tax jurisdictions (for the last decision in October 2025 →eucrim 3/2025, 205-206).On 17 February 2026, the Council added two countries – the Turks and Caicos Islands …

In a Special Report published on 11 February 2026, the European Court of Auditors found that the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) continues to suffer from weaknesses in the detection, reporting and correction of fraud cases.

This news item summarises the "overview document" by the European Court of Auditors which summarises the main risks and challenges of the Commission's proposals on programmes for the next EU funding period 2028-2034. The Court issued a dozen opinions in the first quarter 2026.

n her Opinion, published on 12 February 2026 in Case C-225/24 (Parliament v Commission), Advocate General (AG) Tamara Ćapeta proposes that the Commission’s decision to release EU funds withheld from Hungary be annulled.